CVE-2026-100838
Contrast is a confidential-computing runtime for Kubernetes. In versions before 1.19.1, the Kata agent policies generated by the Contrast CLI contained a flaw in the CopyFile verification that allowed arbitrary writes to the guest root filesystem. A malicious process on the untrusted host able to connect to the Kata agent VSOCK could issue a series of CopyFile requests to overwrite security-critical files in the guest or trick the workload into disclosing sensitive data, effectively amounting to a full guest takeover. Users unable to upgrade can apply an equivalent rego policy fix passed to 'contrast generate --policy'.
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.6
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS 3.1
- 8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 12% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-rh99-wc69-c255 | Go | github.com/edgelesssys/contrast | <1.19.1 | 1.19.1 |
| GO-2026-5624 | Go | github.com/edgelesssys/contrast | <1.19.1 | 1.19.1 |