CVE-2026-24054
criticalpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.005 · 44 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.26.0, when a container image is malformed or contains no layers, containerd falls back to bind-mounting an empty snapshotter directory for the container rootfs. When the Kata runtime attempts to mount the container rootfs, the bind mount causes the rootfs to be detected as a block device, leading to the underlying device being hotplugged to the guest. This can cause filesystem-level errors on the host due to double inode allocation, and may lead to the host's block device being mounted as read-only. Version 3.26.0 contains a patch for the issue.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.9–10
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references (17)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-24054cnnvd
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/d939b6af5f8536c2cae85e919e7c40070557df0e/plugins/snapshots/overlay/overlay.go#L564-L581cnnvd
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/a164693e1afead84cd01d5bc3575e2cbfe64ce35/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go#L1122-L1126cnnvd
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/c7d0c270ee7dfaa6d978e6e07b99dabdaf2b9fda/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go#L1616-L1623cnnvd
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/commit/20ca4d2d79aa5bf63aa1254f08915da84f19e92acnnvd
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-5fc8-gg7w-3g5ccnnvd
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/d939b6af5f8536c2cae85e919e7c40070557df0e/plugins/snapshots/overlay/overlay.go#L564-L581enisa_euvd
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