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TI-2025-36143 Aliases CVE-2025-58354

Kata Containers coco-tdx malicious host can circumvent initdata verification

Priority LOW 36CWE-754Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Low · None
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In Kata Containers versions from 3.20.0 and before, a malicious host can circumvent initdata verification. On TDX systems running confidential guests, a malicious host can selectively fail IO operations to skip initdata verification. This allows an attacker to launch arbitrary workloads while being able to attest successfully to Trustee impersonating any benign workload. This issue has been patched in Kata Containers version 3.21.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00334 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial kata-containers (kata-containers): 3.21.0Red Hat: 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
kata-containerskata-containersbefore 3.21.03.21.0Patch availableCNA
  • kata-containers Vendorkata-containers Affected before 3.21.0 Fixed in 3.21.0 Patch available CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——kata-containers
  • cpe:2.3:a:katacontainers:kata_containers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·kata-containers

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA kata-containers (kata-containers) Fixed in 3.21.0

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4AffectedNo fix yet

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-58354

References

Other 2

  • TI-2026-19382 Improper check for unusual conditions in kata-containers CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2026-20033 Kata Container to Guest micro VM privilege escalation CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
  • TI-2026-34827 Kata guest escape: runtime-rs guest-root to host-root escape via virtiofs CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
  • TI-2026-29927 Kata Containers: CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2026-32189 Kata Containers have VM Escape via virtiofsd Argument Injection through Default-Enabled Pod Annotations CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.8
  • TI-2026-37266 Kata Containers: Config Path Annotation Arbitrary File Loading CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
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Sources

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