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SCA: security update for kubevirt.io/kubevirt (GHSA-849r-8wvp-4wwg)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422311

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions
 of virt-handler. An attacker with access to create VMs could attach any secret within their namespace,
 allowing them to read the contents of that secret. (CVE-2020-1701)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-849r-8wvp-4wwg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422311

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1701

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1701

cwe: CWE-732