CVE-2024-31420

MEDIUM

KubeVirt - Denial of Service via DownwardMetrics vm-dump-metrics Calls

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420

Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 24.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (2)

kubevirt.io/kubevirt 0Go

Red Hat/Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4

Published Apr 03, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026