CVE-2025-64436

KubeVirt Excessive Role Permissions Could Enable Unauthorized VMI Migrations Between Nodes

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Nov 7, 2025
Updated
Nov 10, 2025
Reserved
Nov 3, 2025

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Description

KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. In 1.5.0 and earlier, the permissions granted to the virt-handler service account, such as the ability to update VMI and patch nodes, could be abused to force a VMI migration to an attacker-controlled node. This vulnerability could otherwise allow an attacker to mark all nodes as unschedulable, potentially forcing the migration or creation of privileged pods onto a compromised node.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kubevirtkubevirt
  • <= 1.5.0Affected

References

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