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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-2024

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.

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CVE-2020-2024
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31 Oct 2026, 10:56 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-2024

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 May 2020, 21:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-2024",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "CVE-2020-2024",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-2024",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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          "versions": [
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:08.146208316Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/2474",
        "https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/2475"
      ],
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    },
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383371,
  "published_at": "2020-05-19T21:15:10.07+00:00"
}