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CVE-2026-13322

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

CVSS 3.8 LOWEPSS 0.1%CWE-770
Vexday Risk Score
8Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 3.8EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
26 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L