CVE-2026-24054CRITICAL 10.0EPSS p34.8%
CVE-2026-24054CVE-2026-24054
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 10.0 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.44% probability of exploitation · percentile 34.8% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Published | 2026-01-29 |
| Last modified | 2026-02-24 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/d939b6af5f8536c2cae85e919e7c40070557df0e/plugins/snapshots/overlay/overlay.go#L564-L581
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/a164693e1afead84cd01d5bc3575e2cbfe64ce35/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go#L1122-L1126
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/c7d0c270ee7dfaa6d978e6e07b99dabdaf2b9fda/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go#L1616-L1623
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/commit/20ca4d2d79aa5bf63aa1254f08915da84f19e92a
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-5fc8-gg7w-3g5c
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditionscwe-754 | 0% | live |
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