Improper Preservation of Permissions Affecting kata-containers package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KATACONTAINERS-15537376
  • published14 Mar 2026
  • disclosed19 Feb 2026

Introduced: 19 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-24834  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-281  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kata-containers.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kata-containers package and not the kata-containers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.27.0, an issue in Kata with Cloud Hypervisor allows a user of the container to modify the file system used by the Guest micro VM ultimately achieving arbitrary code execution as root in said VM. The current understanding is this doesn’t impact the security of the Host or of other containers / VMs running on that Host (note that arm64 QEMU lacks NVDIMM read-only support: It is believed that until the upstream QEMU gains this capability, a guest write could reach the image file). Version 3.27.0 patches the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1