cve/2024/CVE-2024-31420.md

### [CVE-2024-31420](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-31420)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds