CVE-2026-7374

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-59 Link Following

Publication date:

26/05/2026

Last modified:

15/07/2026

Description

A flaw was found in KubeVirt&#39;s virt-handler component. This vulnerability allows an authenticated OpenShift user with edit permissions in a single namespace to exploit improper symlink validation when connecting to virtual machine console sockets. By replacing the console socket with a symlink to the host&#39;s container runtime (CRI-O) socket, an attacker can hijack virt-handler&#39;s privileged connection. This enables the attacker to access any Unix socket on the host, potentially leading to full control of the node and the entire cluster.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.90 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.90

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

CVE-2026-7374

Description

Impact

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