CVE-2024-31420

Published: Apr 3, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

6.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (4)

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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