CVE-2026-41326 PUBLISHED

Kata Containers: CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.04.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 24.04.2026

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. From v3.4.0 to v3.28.0, an oversight in the CopyFile policy (and perhaps the CopyFile handler) allows untrusted hosts to write to arbitrary locations inside the guest workload image. This can be used to overwrite binaries inside the guest and exfiltrate data from containers; even those running inside CVMs. This vulnerability is fixed in v3.29.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor kata-containers
Product kata-containers
Versions
  • Version >= 3.4.0, < 3.29.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-61: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following CWE