A flaw was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler domain notify server. The gRPC handlers for HandleDomainEvent and HandleK8SEvent derive the VMI identity (namespace/name) solely from the request body without validating it against the connection's origin. Each virt-launcher pod connects through a per-VMI pipe socket, but no identity tag is propagated from the pipe path to the server handlers. This allows a compromised virt-launcher process to send forged domain lifecycle events for any other VMI scheduled on the same node, causing virt-handler to erroneously update that VMI's state and disrupt its lifecycle management.
CVE-2026-13208
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-24. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 34(Track)EG Risk 34/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity65% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 24, 2026
Last Modified
July 6, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jun 25, 20262492220 – (CVE-2026-13208) CVE-2026-13208 kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: virt-handler notify server trusts VMI identity from unauthenticated gRPC request body
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492220Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-13208(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- CVE-2026-13208Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Medium
Kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: virt-handler notify server trusts vmi identity from unauthenticated grpc request body
- GHSA-72r2-m3hg-cvf5GitHub Security AdvisoriesMedium
A flaw was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler domain notify server. The gRPC handlers for...
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