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A flaw was found in KubeVirt's migration proxy (pkg/virt-handler/migration-proxy/migration-proxy.go). When spec.configuration.migrations.disableTLS is set to true on the KubeVirt CR, serverTLSConfig is nilled and createTcpListener falls through to a plain net.Listen("tcp", ...) with no authentication. The listener binds unconditionally on 0.0.0.0/:: via GetIPZeroAddress() (pkg/util/net/ip/ip.go). The accept handler (handleConnection) performs no peer-IP check, no auth token validation, and immediately starts io.Copy into the target UNIX socket. The first proxied socket is virtqemud-sock, configured with authunixrw=none. Any pod on the cluster network can connect and speak libvirt RPC against another tenant's VM.

The migrations.network NAD configuration only changes the advertised migrationIpAddress (pkg/virt-handler/migration.go), not the listener bind, so the port remains reachable on the pod network even with a dedicated migration network. The API godoc (staging/src/kubevirt.io/api/core/v1/types.go) describes disableTLS as removing "the additional layer of live migration encryption" without disclosing the authentication removal. disableTLS is cluster-admin-only on the KubeVirt CR and is not available in the MigrationPolicy spec.

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