CVE-2024-31420

MEDIUMNVD 6.56.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2024-04-03. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
6.5
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 1%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(medium)
EPSS
46.5%
KEV
Not listed

Published

April 3, 2024

Last Modified

April 15, 2026

References (4)

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
gokubevirt.io/kubevirt—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
kubevirt.io/kubevirt———

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-31420?
CVE-2024-31420 is a medium vulnerability published on April 3, 2024. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in KubeVirt. This flaw allows an attacker who has access to a virtual machine guest on a node with DownwardMetrics enabled to cause a denial of service by issuing a high number of calls to vm-dump-metrics --virtio and then deleting the virtual machine.
When was CVE-2024-31420 disclosed?
CVE-2024-31420 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 3, 2024, with the most recent update on April 15, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2024-31420 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-31420 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 46.5% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-31420?
CVE-2024-31420 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-31420?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2024-31420, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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