Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 3, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-31420

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kubevirt.io/kubevirtGo	<= 1.2.0	—

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9gghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31420ghsaADVISORY
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420nvdWEB
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdWEB

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