CVE-2026-100838 PUBLISHED

Contrast before 1.19.1 CopyFile Policy Symlink Subversion

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 26.09.2026 Published: 27.09.2026 Updated: 27.09.2026

Contrast is a confidential-computing runtime for Kubernetes. In versions before 1.19.1, the Kata agent policies generated by the Contrast CLI contained a flaw in the CopyFile verification that allowed arbitrary writes to the guest root filesystem. A malicious process on the untrusted host able to connect to the Kata agent VSOCK could issue a series of CopyFile requests to overwrite security-critical files in the guest or trick the workload into disclosing sensitive data, effectively amounting to a full guest takeover. Users unable to upgrade can apply an equivalent rego policy fix passed to 'contrast generate --policy'.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.6

Product Status

Vendor edgelesssys
Product contrast
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.19.1 (excl.)
  • Version 1.19.1 is unaffected

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') CWE