CVE-2020-1701: Kubevirt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler. An attacker with access to create VMs could attach any secret within their namespace, allowing them to read the contents of that secret.

Affected products

• Kubevirt Kubevirt: before 0.26.0 (fixed in 0.26.0)

Published 2021-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.