CVE-2026-24834

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24834
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-24834.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-24834
Aliases
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Published
2026-02-19T15:57:50.691Z
Modified
2026-02-23T19:41:13.971542Z
Severity
  • 9.3 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation
Details

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 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the file system used by the Guest micro VM ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution as root in said VM. The current understanding is this doesn’t impact the security of the Host or of other containers / VMs running on that Host (note that arm64 QEMU lacks NVDIMM read-only support: It is believed that until the upstream QEMU gains this capability, a guest write could reach the image file). Version 3.27.0 patches the issue.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-732"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/24xxx/CVE-2026-24834.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
855f4dc7fac1a4822938212f447413d2a9416bd1

Affected versions

1.*
1.10.0-rc0
1.11.0-alpha0
1.11.0-alpha1
1.11.0-rc0
1.9.3
2.*
2.0.0-alpha1
2.0.0-alpha2
2.0.0-alpha3
2.0.0-rc0
2.1-alpha0
2.1-alpha1
2.1.0-alpha0
2.1.0-alpha1
2.1.0-alpha2
2.1.0-rc0
2.2.0-alpha0
2.2.0-alpha1
2.2.0-rc0
2.3.0-alpha0
2.3.0-alpha1
2.3.0-alpha2
2.3.0-rc0
2.4.0-alpha0
2.4.0-alpha1
2.4.0-alpha2
2.4.0-rc0
2.5.0-alpha0
2.5.0-alpha1
2.5.0-alpha2
2.5.0-rc0
3.*
3.0.0-alpha0
3.0.0-alpha1
3.0.0-rc0
3.1.0-alpha0
3.1.0-alpha1
3.1.0-rc0
3.10.0
3.10.1
3.11.0
3.12.0
3.13.0
3.14.0
3.15.0
3.16.0
3.17.0
3.18.0
3.19.0
3.19.1
3.2.0-alpha0
3.2.0-alpha1
3.2.0-alpha2
3.2.0-alpha3
3.2.0-alpha4
3.2.0-rc0
3.20.0
3.21.0
3.22.0
3.23.0
3.24.0
3.25.0
3.26.0
3.3.0
3.3.0-alpha0
3.3.0-test
3.4.0
3.5.0
3.6.0
3.7.0
3.8.0
3.9.0
release-3.*
release-3.4.0
Other
untagged-b5b6198308b02e3a2666
untagged-c2a61792b39392572d0f

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-24834.json"