Resource exhaustion in Kubevirt
CVE-2026-13322
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.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.8 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.001 (2.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 2nd percentile — 2.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13322 (Mitigation, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-13322?
- CVE-2026-13322 is a low-severity vulnerability in Kubevirt, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 3.8/10. Published 2026-06-26.
- How severe is CVE-2026-13322?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.8 out of 10.