CVE-2024-31420 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Container Native Virtualization

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References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31420
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31420

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2024-04-03T14:01:07.124Z

Updated: 2025-02-07T03:17:49.953Z

Reserved: 2024-04-03T12:10:43.208Z

Link: CVE-2024-31420

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:52:56.848Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-04-03T14:15:18.310

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:13:29.823

Link: CVE-2024-31420

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-04-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-31420 - Bugzilla

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