Answer in brief
CVE-2026-13322 records a Low severity (CVSS 3.8) vulnerability in Kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: unbounded virtio-serial readline in virt-handler causes oom denial of service. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/container-native-virtualization/virt-handler (generic), Red Hat/container-native-virtualization/virt-handler-rhel9 (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 3.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Red Hat/container-native-virtualization/virt-handler (generic), Red Hat/container-native-virtualization/virt-handler-rhel9 (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:kubevirt:kubevirt:-:*:*:*:*:kubernetes:*:* | Not reported | Not reported |
| cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_virtualization:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | Not reported | Not reported |
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/container-native-virtualization/virt-handlergeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/container-native-virtualization/virt-handler-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jun 26, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 25, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jun 26, 2026
A flaw was found in KubeVirt's downward metrics virtio-serial server. The server reads guest requests using textproto.Reader.ReadLine(), which buffers input indefinitely until a newline character is received, with no length limit or read deadline. A user with access to a VM guest that has the downward metrics virtio-serial device configured can write a continuous byte stream to the device, causing unbounded memory allocation in the virt-handler process until it is OOM-killed.
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