Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
8.8
Path Traversal
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

A symlink following vulnerability was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler migration proxy. During live migration, the target-side virt-handler uses net.Dial("unix", "/proc/<pid>/root/...") to connect to Unix sockets inside the target virt-launcher pod. This call follows symlinks without restriction. The socket directories (/var/run/kubevirt/migrationproxy/, /var/run/libvirt/) are owned by the qemu user and writable from within the container. An authenticated user with namespace edit and pods/exec can trigger a migration, exec into the target virt-launcher, replace a socket with a symlink to the host CRI-O socket, and proxy arbitrary CRI gRPC from the source launcher — achieving full node compromise.

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Source: Red Hat
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