What is CVE-2026-13201?

CVE-2026-13201 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 5.2/10. Published 2026-06-24.

How severe is CVE-2026-13201?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.2 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4

CVE-2026-13201

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's safepath package. The OpenAtNoFollow function uses O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW to obtain a file descriptor to a path leaf, but downstream helpers operate via /proc/self/fd/N using link-following syscalls. When the leaf…

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-61 — UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-13201?: CVE-2026-13201 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Virtualization 4, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 5.2/10. Published 2026-06-24.
How severe is CVE-2026-13201?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.2 out of 10.