CVE 3.8 LOW

Kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: unbounded virtio-serial readline in virt-handler causes oom denial of service_CVE-2026-13322

3.8 / 10
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-13322
Source redhat
Published Jun 26, 2026 at 00:04

Affected Product

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4

CWE Classification

References

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