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CVE-2024-31420

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CVE-2024-31420

Published: Apr 3, 2024

Modified: Nov 20, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

VendorProductVersions

Unknown

cnv

affected
4.15.0

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4

All versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

RHBZ#2272951
issue-tracking
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