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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In Kata Containers versions from 3.20.0 and before, a malicious host can circumvent initdata verification. On TDX systems running confidential guests, a malicious host can selectively fail IO operations to skip initdata verification. This allows an attacker to launch arbitrary workloads while being able to attest successfully to Trustee impersonating any benign workload. This issue has been patched in Kata Containers version 3.21.0.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2025-58354
Source
GitHub_M
Published
Sep 23, 2025 at 21:08
Affected Product
Vendor
kata-containers
Product
kata-containers
Version
< 3.21.0
Affected Versions
kata-containers kata-containers < 3.21.0