Bug 2517502 (CVE-2026-77176) - CVE-2026-77176 kata-containers: Insufficient validation of CreateContainer mount and storage rules in genpolicy
Summary: CVE-2026-77176 kata-containers: Insufficient validation of CreateContainer mo...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-77176
Deadline: 2026-08-20
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2520380
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Reported: 2026-08-17 17:00 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-26 13:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-17 17:00:20 UTC
In Kata Containers configurations that use genpolicy for Confidential Containers guest protection, insufficient validation of CreateContainer mount and storage rules allows a malicious host operator to craft CreateContainer requests that cause arbitrary container-rootfs paths to be mounted over host-provided locations (such as /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, Kubernetes/Azure service-account token paths, and other volume mounts), or to provision arbitrary content under /dev/shm and /dev/termination-log. Applications that treat those paths as non-sensitive or guest-only may expose confidential information or accept attacker-controlled input. Standard Kata sandboxing is not affected.


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