Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-OPENSHIFTOSERHELCOREOS9-19352105
  • published27 Aug 2026
  • disclosed23 Jul 2026

Introduced: 23 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-44210  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package and not the openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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. Versions prior to 3.31.0 ship with a default configuration that allows pod creators to inject arbitrary command-line arguments into the virtiofsd process through the io.katacontainers.config.hypervisor.virtio_fs_extra_args pod annotation. By injecting -o source=/ along with --no-announce-submounts and --sandbox=none, an attacker can override the virtiofsd shared directory to serve the entire host root filesystem into the guest VM. Combined with the kernel_params annotation (also enabled by default) to activate the agent debug console, the attacker can mount the host filesystem from inside the VM and read or write any file on the host, including /etc/shadow. Version 3.31.0 patches the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1