VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-2025

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-05-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM image file with all VMMs, this issue may also affect QEMU and Firecracker based guests.

Weakness classification

  • psirt@paloaltonetworks.com: CWE-284
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-281

Primary references