Bug 2413489 (CVE-2025-64437) - CVE-2025-64437 kubevirt.io/kubevirt: KubeVirt Isolation Detection Flaw Allows Arbitrary File Permission Changes
Summary: CVE-2025-64437 kubevirt.io/kubevirt: KubeVirt Isolation Detection Flaw Allows...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-64437
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-11-08 00:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-11 19:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-08 00:02:05 UTC
KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. In versions before 1.5.3 and 1.6.1, the virt-handler does not verify whether the launcher-sock is a symlink or a regular file. This oversight can be exploited, for example, to change the ownership of arbitrary files on the host node to the unprivileged user with UID 107 (the same user used by virt-launcher) thus, compromising the CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability) of data on the host. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker should be in control of the file system of the virt-launcher pod. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.3 and 1.6.1.


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