CVE-2026-13322
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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.
Severity
LOW
CVSS score
3.8
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-06-26 00:16:51.397000
Last modified
2026-10-25 22:10:00.150000
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