CVE-2022-1798 (GCVE-0-2022-1798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-15 15:45 – Updated: 2025-04-21 13:49
VLAI
Title
Path Traversal vulnerability in Kubevirt
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability in KubeVirt versions up to 0.56 (and 0.55.1) on all platforms allows a user able to configure the kubevirt to read arbitrary files on the host filesystem which are publicly readable or which are readable for UID 107 or GID 107. /proc/self/<> is not accessible.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google LLC Kubevirt Affected: unspecified , < 0.55.1 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 0.56.0 (custom)
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Credits
Oliver Brooks and James Klopchic of NCC Group Diane Dubois and Roman Mohr of Google
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