CVE-2025-64433
Medium · 6.5KubeVirt Arbitrary Container File Read
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
0.5%
Published
Nov 6, 2025
CISA due date
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The record
_Short summary of the problem. Make the impact and severity as clear as possible. Mounting a user-controlled PVC disk within a VM allows an attacker to read any file present in the `virt-launcher` pod. This is due to erroneous handling of symlinks defined within a PVC.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Introduced | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt | 0 | 1.5.3 |
| Go | github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt | 1.6.0-alpha.0 | 1.6.0-beta.0.0.20250801195231-a81b27d4600c |
| Go | github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt | 1.6.0-rc.0 | 1.6.1 |
| Go | kubevirt.io/kubevirt | 0 | 1.5.3 |
| Go | kubevirt.io/kubevirt | 1.6.0-alpha.0 | 1.6.1 |
| Chainguard | docker-machine-driver-harvester | 0 | 1.0.6-r4 |
| Wolfi | docker-machine-driver-harvester | 0 | 1.0.6-r4 |
| go | github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt | 1.6.0-rc.0 | 1.6.1 |
| go | kubevirt.io/kubevirt | 1.6.0-alpha.0 | 1.6.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kubevirt | 0 | 1.7.0-160000.1.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | kubevirt | 0 | 1.6.3-1.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | kubevirt-1.8 | 0 | 1.8.3-1.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | kubevirt1.8 | 0 | 1.8.3-1.1 |
Related vulnerabilities
- GO-2025-4105 KubeVirt VMI Denial-of-Service (DoS) Using Pod Impersonation in kubevirt.io/kubevirt Also affects github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt
- GO-2025-4104 KubeVirt Excessive Role Permissions Could Enable Unauthorized VMI Migrations Between… Also affects github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt
- CVE-2025-64435 KubeVirt VMI Denial-of-Service (DoS) Using Pod Impersonation Also affects github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt
- CVE-2025-64436 KubeVirt Excessive Role Permissions Could Enable Unauthorized VMI Migrations Between Nodes Also affects github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt
- GO-2026-4384 KubeVirt Guest Agent DoS via Excessive Network Interface Reports in kubevirt.io/kubevirt Also affects kubevirt.io/kubevirt
- CVE-2025-14525 A flaw was found in kubevirt. Also affects kubevirt.io/kubevirt
- CVE-2025-64432 KubeVirt Affected by an Authentication Bypass in Kubernetes Aggregation Layer Also affects kubevirt.io/kubevirt
- CVE-2025-64324 KubeVirt Vulnerable to Arbitrary Host File Read and Write Also affects kubevirt.io/kubevirt