CVE-2026-13322CWE-770

Kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: unbounded virtio-serial readline in virt-handler causes oom denial of service

Low · published June 26, 2026

CVSS v3.1
3.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.8 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00134 · 2.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-06-26T00:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 JUN 00:04Z
    Kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: unbounded virtio-serial readline in virt-handler causes oom denial of service
    cvelistv5