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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-1311 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-20T19:12:24.292Z

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

Link: CVE-2024-31420

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

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

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

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

Link: CVE-2024-31420

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2024-31420 - Bugzilla

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