CVE-2026-13322

low

Description

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's downward metrics virtio-serial server. The server reads guest requests using textproto.Reader.ReadLine(), which buffers input indefinitely until a newline character is received, with no length limit or read deadline. A user with access to a VM guest that has the downward metrics virtio-serial device configured can write a continuous byte stream to the device, causing unbounded memory allocation in the virt-handler process until it is OOM-killed.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492681

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13322

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-26

Updated: 2026-06-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.8

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

Severity: Low