CVE-2020-27151: Katacontainers Kata Containers

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Kata Containers through 1.11.3 and 2.x through 2.0-rc1. The runtime will execute binaries given using annotations without any kind of validation. Someone who is granted access rights to a cluster will be able to have kata-runtime execute arbitrary binaries as root on the worker nodes.

Affected products

• Katacontainers Kata Containers: up to and including 1.11.3; version 2.0.0 only

Published 2020-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.