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CVE-2026-77176

8.1 high SSVC exploitation: none Published

A flaw was found in Kata Containers. In configurations utilizing genpolicy for Confidential Containers guest protection, a malicious host operator can exploit insufficient validation of CreateContainer mount and storage rules. This allows them to mount arbitrary container-rootfs paths over sensitive host locations or provision arbitrary content, potentially exposing confidential information or enabling the acceptance of attacker-controlled input.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 2

  1. StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-26 17:52
  2. First seenCVSS 8.1NVD modified 2026-10-18 20:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 4