High severity · published Sep 27, 2026
CVE-2026-100838
Contrast before 1.19.1 CopyFile Policy Symlink Subversion
8.1
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
contrast · edgelesssys
before 1.19.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-100838
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-100838
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/edgelesssys/contrast/security/advisories/GHSA-rh99-wc69-c255
third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/contrast-before-1.19.1-copyfile-policy-symlink-subversion
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