CVE-2022-1798: Kubevirt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path traversal vulnerability in KubeVirt versions up to 0.56 (and 0.55.1) on all platforms allows a user able to configure the kubevirt to read arbitrary files on the host filesystem which are publicly readable or which are readable for UID 107 or GID 107. /proc/self/<> is not accessible.

Affected products

• Kubevirt Kubevirt: from 0.20.0, before 0.55.1 (fixed in 0.55.1)

Published 2022-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.