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CVE-2026-50540

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What it is

Reported

Kata 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.… Source description excerpt; complete tracked detail loads below.

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What is affected

Reported

kata-containers — kata-containers. Product-level identification only; no affected-version conclusion is available from this field.

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Urgency and basis

Reported

Track · 119.5

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Exploitation evidence

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What to do

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