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UK Cyber Defence
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CVE-2026-71566

This allows any user of the cluster to control VMs of the user that created fakefish, power them on and off, and mount arbitrary CD images to them.

CRITICAL 9.3EPSS 0.21%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

FakeFish handles incoming credentials by passing them down to scripts. This works for real hardware because in the end it's up to the BMC to validate them. However, KubeVirt relies on a KUBECONFIG file mounted to the container and completely ignores the credentials. This allows any user of the cluster to control VMs of the user that created fakefish, power them on and off, and mount arbitrary CD images to them.

CVSS 3.1
9.3 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
EPSS
0.21% probability · 12th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-306
Source
74b3a70d-cca6-4d34-9789-e83b222ae3be

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.