CVE-2020-2025

Kata Containers - Cloud Hypervisor guests persist filesystem changes to the underlying host image file

Published May 19, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-22052 Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
palo_alto
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 7:35 PM
Reserved
Dec 4, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 19, 2020, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:11 AM