GHSA-6f2p-2qg2-qqchLowCVSS 3.8

KubeVirt downward metrics virtio-serial server vulnerable to unbounded memory consumption

Published
June 26, 2026
Last Modified
November 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's downward metrics virtio-serial server. The server reads guest requests using textproto.Reader.ReadLine(), which buffers input indefinitely until a newline character is received, with no length limit or read deadline. A user with access to a VM guest that has the downward metrics virtio-serial device configured can write a continuous byte stream to the device, causing unbounded memory allocation in the virt-handler process until it is OOM-killed.

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt:>= 1.1.0-alpha.0, <= 1.10.0-rc.0

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