GHSA-6f2p-2qg2-qqchPublished

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

Exact source revision recorded 5 Nov 2026 23:38:32 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.

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osv · GHSA-6f2p-2qg2-qqch

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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.

Source published: 26 Jun 2026 00:32:07 UTC
Source modified: 5 Nov 2026 23:26:13 UTC
Observed here: 5 Nov 2026 23:38:32 UTC
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CVSS_V3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

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