CVE-2026-47243
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
Kata guest escape: runtime-rs guest-root to host-root escape via virtiofs
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| GO | github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers | < 0.0.0-20260519062212-ffa59ce3aa78 | 0.0.0-20260519062212-ffa59ce3aa78 |
| Go | github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers | <0.0.0-20260519062212-ffa59ce3aa78 | 0.0.0-20260519062212-ffa59ce3aa78 |
References
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-2gv2-cffp-j227
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/commit/ffa59ce3aa7877d067c9a372df0c329a23a01744
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases/tag/3.31.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2gv2-cffp-j227
- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.