What is CVE-2024-31420?

CVE-2024-31420 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-04-03.

How severe is CVE-2024-31420?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-31420 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

NULL pointer dereference in Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4

CVE-2024-31420

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.

EPSS: 0.006 (47.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-31420?: CVE-2024-31420 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-04-03.
How severe is CVE-2024-31420?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-31420 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.