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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-13622 (HIGH 8.8) — A symlink following vulnerability was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler migration proxy. During live migration, virt-handler dials Unix sockets inside the target virt-launcher pod via /proc/<pid>/root/ paths using net.Dial() without symlink protection. These socket paths reside in

[NVD] CVE-2026-13622 (HIGH 8.8) — A symlink following vulnerability was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler migration proxy. During live migration, virt-handler dials Unix sockets inside the target virt-launcher pod via /proc/<pid>/root/ paths using net.Dial() without symlink protection. These socket paths reside in

mednvdPublished 2026-08-12

CVE-2026-13622 CVSS: 8.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-12T21:17:35.630

A symlink following vulnerability was found in KubeVirt's virt-handler migration proxy. During live migration, virt-handler dials Unix sockets inside the target virt-launcher pod via /proc/<pid>/root/ paths using net.Dial() without symlink protection. These socket paths reside in qemu-owned directories writable by the virt-launcher

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CVE-2026-13622cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13622