CVE-2024-31420

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.006 · 51 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.64% (51st) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-476USCWE-476US

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Go kubevirt.io/kubevirt≤ 1.2.0osvUSpkg:golang/kubevirt.io/kubevirt
Go kubevirt.io/kubevirtall versionsosvUSpkg:golang/kubevirt.io/kubevirt

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9gKubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw2024-04-03ghsa · osvUS
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.
GO-2024-2688KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw in kubevirt.io/kubevirt2024-06-05vendor · osvUS
KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw in kubevirt.io/kubevirt

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-04-03modified 2026-06-17

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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