CVE-2026-50540: Kata Containers: Config Path Annotation Arbitrary File Loading
Overview
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.6)
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Patch Tuesday
- 2026-Aug
- Released
- 2026-08-09
- EPSS Score
- 0.38% (percentile: 30.5%)
Affected Products (2)
Open Source Software
- azl3 kata-containers 3.32.0.kata0-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kata-containers-cc 3.15.0.aks0-16 on Azure Linux 3.0
Revision History
- 2026-08-09: Information published.