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GHSA-rh99-wc69-c255: Contras Affected by CopyFile Policy Subversion via Symlinks

April 30, 2026

The Kata agent policies generated by the Contrast CLI had an issue in the CopyFile verification, which allowed arbitrary writes to the guest root filesytem. A malicious process on the host with the capability to connect to the Kata agent VSOCK could connect to the agent and issue a series of CopyFile requests to overwrite security-critical files or trick the workload into disclosing sensitive data, which effectively amounts to a full guest takeover.

References

  • gist.github.com/burgerdev/304dd0ab0fff1665b7c27e18a30cf96e
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-rh99-wc69-c255
  • github.com/edgelesssys/contrast
  • github.com/edgelesssys/contrast/releases/tag/v1.19.1
  • github.com/edgelesssys/contrast/security/advisories/GHSA-rh99-wc69-c255
  • github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-q49m-57vm-c8cc

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.19.1

Fixed versions

  • 1.19.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.19.1 or above.

Impact 8.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Source file

go/github.com/edgelesssys/contrast/GHSA-rh99-wc69-c255.yml

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