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CVE-2020-1701
A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler. An attacker…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.75%
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- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler. An attacker with access to create VMs could attach any secret within their namespace, allowing them to read the contents of that secret.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.75% · top 45% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
virt-handler
- affected kubevirt 0.26.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gokubevirt.io/kubevirtGHSA-849r-8wvp-4wwg (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792092 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-849r-8wvp-4wwg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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