What is CVE-2026-13201?

CVE-2026-13201 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kubevirt, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2026-06-24.

How severe is CVE-2026-13201?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Kubevirt

CVE-2026-13201

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's safepath package used by virt-handler. The OpenAtNoFollow function uses O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW to obtain a file descriptor to a path leaf, but downstream operations resolve the path via /proc/self/fd/N using link-…

EPSS: 0.001 (2.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H.

Affected products

Kubevirt
Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.22 — versions 1785140336
Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4
Redhat Openshift_virtualization

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-61 — UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, Mitigation, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-13201?: CVE-2026-13201 is a high-severity vulnerability in Kubevirt, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2026-06-24.
How severe is CVE-2026-13201?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.