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SCA: security update for kubevirt.io/kubevirt (GHSA-cvx8-ppmc-78hm)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 414123

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A path traversal vulnerability in KubeVirt versions up to 0.56 (and 0.55.1) on all platforms allows a user
 able to configure the kubevirt to read arbitrary files on the host filesystem which are publicly readable
 or which are readable for UID 107 or GID 107. /proc/self/<> is not accessible. (CVE-2022-1798)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cvx8-ppmc-78hm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414123

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.17

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1798

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1798

cwe: CWE-22