Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in Kata Containers - CVE-2025-58354
Published: May 22, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU132133
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-58354
CWE-ID: CWE-754
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to launch arbitrary workloads while attesting successfully as a benign workload.
The vulnerability exists due to improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions in the Kata agent attestation agent presence check when handling I/O errors during rootfs access. A remote privileged user can selectively fail I/O operations to skip initdata verification and launch arbitrary workloads while attesting successfully as a benign workload.
The issue applies only to CoCo variants using rootfs and dm-verity, and does not affect cases where guest component binaries are stored in the initrd.
Affected software
Kata Containers
How to mitigate CVE-2025-58354
Install security update from vendor's website.
Kata Containers - addressed in versions 1.9.3, 3.21.0