# KubeVirt Affected by an Authentication Bypass in Kubernetes Aggregation Layer

Advisory record · `GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286` · `CVE-2025-64432` · `GO-2025-4103`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 4.7 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-287](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html) · [CWE-295](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html)
- **Tags:** [Authentication bypass](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/auth-bypass.md) · [Weak cryptography or TLS](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/weak-crypto.md)
- **Published:** 6 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 6 Nov 2025, 23:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `kubevirt.io/kubevirt` (Go): affected `<1.5.3 || >=1.6.0-alpha.0, <1.6.1 || >=1.7.0-alpha.0, <1.7.0-rc.0`; fixed in `1.5.3`, `1.6.1`, `1.7.0-rc.0`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286 affects the Go module kubevirt.io/kubevirt before 1.5.3, from 1.6.0-alpha.0 before 1.6.1, and from 1.7.0-alpha.0 before 1.7.0-rc.0. In virt-api, the client certificate's Common Name is not validated against the allowed values from the extension-apiserver-authentication ConfigMap, so requests over mTLS can bypass RBAC. An attacker needs a certificate signed by the front-proxy CA plus network access to virt-api, such as from a pod in the cluster. Upgrade to 1.5.3, 1.6.1, 1.7.0-rc.0 or later.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 4.7 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0015, the 3rd percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:14 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:14 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286)
- [OSV: GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286)
- <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/security/advisories/GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64432>
- <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/commit/231dc69723f331dc02f65a31ab4c3d6869f40d6a>
- <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/commit/af2f08a9a186eccc650f87c30ab3e07b669e8b5b>
- <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/commit/b9773bc588e6e18ece896a2dad5336ef7a653074>
- <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

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- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-38jw-g2qx-4286>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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