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Vulnerability record · CVE-2026-24834 · published 19 February 2026

CVE-2026-24834: Katacontainers kata containers incorrect permission assignment vulnerability

Katacontainers · Kata Containers

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the file system used by the Guest micro VM ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution as root in said VM. The current understanding is this doesn’t impact the security of the Host or of other containers / VMs running on that Host (note that arm64 QEMU lacks NVDIMM read-only support: It is believed that until the upstream QEMU gains this capability, a guest write could reach the image file). Version 3.27.0 patches the issue.

8.8 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.22% · top 88.3% CWE-732 · Incorrect permission assignmentCWE-281 · CWE-281
8.8CVSS 3.1 base score
0.22%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References, 1 tagged exploit
15 Jul 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the file system used by the Guest micro VM ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution as root in said VM. The current understanding is this doesn’t impact the security of the Host or of other containers / VMs running on that Host (note that arm64 QEMU lacks NVDIMM read-only support: It is believed that until the upstream QEMU gains this capability, a guest write could reach the image file). Version 3.27.0 patches the issue.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/commit/6a672503973bf7c687053e459bfff8a9652e16bf Patch
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/3.27.0 ProductRelease Notes
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-wwj6-vghv-5p64 ExploitVendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-24834
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441025
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-24834.json

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2026-24834), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.