Medium
Security advisory
An improper link resolution vulnerability affects Kata Containers versions prior to 1.11.0. Upon container teardown, a malicious guest can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host and all mount points underneath it, potentiality resulting in a host DoS.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-2024
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An improper link resolution vulnerability affects Kata Containers versions prior to 1.11.0. Upon container teardown, a malicious guest can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host and all mount points underneath it, potentiality resulting in a host DoS.
osv:CVE-2020-2024
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:08.146208316Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2475"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383371,
"published_at": "2020-05-19T21:15:10.07+00:00"
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