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CVE-2026-24054

kata-containers: Kata Containers: Denial of Service and filesystem errors due to malformed container image processing

Published Modified CWE 754
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Azure Linux. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).

Description

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.26.0, when a container image is malformed or contains no layers, containerd falls back to bind-mounting an empty snapshotter directory for the container rootfs. When the Kata runtime attempts to mount the container rootfs, the bind mount causes the rootfs to be detected as a block device, leading to the underlying device being hotplugged to the guest. This can cause filesystem-level errors on the host due to double inode allocation, and may lead to the host's block device being mounted as read-only. Version 3.26.0 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Azure Linux 3.0kata-containers0:3.19.1.kata2-3.azl3
rapidfort fedora 43kata-containers3.25.0-2.fc43
Red Hatkata-containers, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9no fix listed
Show all 5 entries from 3 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Azure Linux 3.0kata-containers0:3.19.1.kata2-3.azl3
rapidfort fedora 43kata-containers3.25.0-2.fc43
Red Hatkata-containersno fix listed
Red Hatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8no fix listed
Red Hatopenshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9no fix listed

References

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