CVE-2026-50540
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Detection and validation
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Sigma
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Atomic
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Nuclei
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What it is
ReportedKata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. Prior to version 4.0.0, kata-runtime is vulnerable to host code execution via an unvalidated configuration path annotation. The runtime accepts an arbitrary io.katacontainers.config_path pod annotation and loads the referenced host TOML file without restriction.…
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What is affected
Reportedkata-containers; kata-containers. Product-level identification only; no affected-version conclusion is available from this field.
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Urgency and basis
ReportedTrack · 128.1
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Exploitation evidence
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What to do
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Evidence detail
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