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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-13201 (HIGH 7.3) — A flaw was found in KubeVirt's safepath package used by virt-handler. The OpenAtNoFollow function uses O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW to obtain a file descriptor to a path leaf, but downstream operations resolve the path via /proc/self/fd/N using link-following syscalls. When the leaf is a sy

[NVD] CVE-2026-13201 (HIGH 7.3) — A flaw was found in KubeVirt's safepath package used by virt-handler. The OpenAtNoFollow function uses O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW to obtain a file descriptor to a path leaf, but downstream operations resolve the path via /proc/self/fd/N using link-following syscalls. When the leaf is a sy

lownvdPublished 2026-06-24

CVE-2026-13201 CVSS: 7.3 HIGH Published: 2026-06-24T21:16:52.420

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's safepath package used by virt-handler. The OpenAtNoFollow function uses O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW to obtain a file descriptor to a path leaf, but downstream operations resolve the path via /proc/self/fd/N using link-following syscalls. When the leaf is a symlink, the kernel dereferences it, defeating the inten

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13201