{"id":"GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g","summary":"KubeVirt NULL pointer dereference flaw","details":"A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.","aliases":["CVE-2024-31420","GO-2024-2688"],"modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:11.408530751Z","published":"2024-04-03T15:30:42Z","database_specific":{"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2024-04-03T18:04:42Z","nvd_published_at":"2024-04-03T14:15:18Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-476"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31420"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-31420"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272951"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kubevirt.io/kubevirt","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/kubevirt.io/kubevirt"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.2.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/04/GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g/GHSA-vjhf-6xfr-5p9g.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}