CVE-2026-100838 HIGH

CVE-2026-100838: Contrast before 1.19.1 CopyFile Policy Symlink Subversion

Vendor Edgelesssys
Product contrast
Weakness CWE-59
Published September 27, 2026
Last update September 27, 2026

CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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'.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 27, 2026 CVE published