# CVE-2026-24054

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-24054
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 8.8 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:P)
- **CWE:** CWE-754
- **Published:** Jan 29, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Mar 12, 2026

## Description

Kata Containers is an open source project focusing on a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that perform like containers. In versions prior to 3.26.0, when a container image is malformed or contains no layers, containerd falls back to bind-mounting an empty snapshotter directory for the container rootfs. When the Kata runtime attempts to mount the container rootfs, the bind mount causes the rootfs to be detected as a block device, leading to the underlying device being hotplugged to the guest. This can cause filesystem-level errors on the host due to double inode allocation, and may lead to the host's block device being mounted as read-only. Version 3.26.0 contains a patch for the issue.

## Affected Products

- kata-containers — kata-containers (< 3.26.0)

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-5fc8-gg7w-3g5c)
- [CNA](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/commit/20ca4d2d79aa5bf63aa1254f08915da84f19e92a)
- [CNA](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/d939b6af5f8536c2cae85e919e7c40070557df0e/plugins/snapshots/overlay/overlay.go#L564-L581)
- [CNA](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/a164693e1afead84cd01d5bc3575e2cbfe64ce35/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go#L1122-L1126)
- [CNA](https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/c7d0c270ee7dfaa6d978e6e07b99dabdaf2b9fda/src/runtime/virtcontainers/container.go#L1616-L1623)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.45%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 37.4

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-10._