Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF. Prior to 0.50.1, in a situation where the ring-buffer of a gadget is – incidentally or maliciously – already full, the gadget will silently drop events. The include/gadget/buffer.h file contains definitions for the Buffer API that gadgets can use to, among the other things, transfer data from eBPF programs to userspace. For hosts running a modern enough Linux kernel (>= 5.8), this transfer mechanism is based on ring-buffers. The size of the ring-buffer for the gadgets is hard-coded to 256KB. When a gadget_reserve_buf fails because of insufficient space, the gadget silently cleans up without producing an alert. The lost count reported by the eBPF operator, when using ring-buffers – the modern choice – is hardcoded to zero. The vulnerability can be used by a malicious event source (e.g. a compromised container) to cause a Denial Of Service, forcing the system to drop events coming from other containers (or the same container). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.50.1.
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Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linuxfoundation
Linuxfoundation inspektor Gadget
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:inspektor_gadget:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linuxfoundation
Linuxfoundation inspektor Gadget
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Inspektor-gadget
Inspektor-gadget inspektor-gadget
Vendors & Products Inspektor-gadget
Inspektor-gadget inspektor-gadget

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000

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Description Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF. Prior to 0.50.1, in a situation where the ring-buffer of a gadget is – incidentally or maliciously – already full, the gadget will silently drop events. The include/gadget/buffer.h file contains definitions for the Buffer API that gadgets can use to, among the other things, transfer data from eBPF programs to userspace. For hosts running a modern enough Linux kernel (>= 5.8), this transfer mechanism is based on ring-buffers. The size of the ring-buffer for the gadgets is hard-coded to 256KB. When a gadget_reserve_buf fails because of insufficient space, the gadget silently cleans up without producing an alert. The lost count reported by the eBPF operator, when using ring-buffers – the modern choice – is hardcoded to zero. The vulnerability can be used by a malicious event source (e.g. a compromised container) to cause a Denial Of Service, forcing the system to drop events coming from other containers (or the same container). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.50.1.
Title Inspektor Gadget: Tracing Denial of Service via Event Flooding
Weaknesses CWE-223
CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-13T16:25:05.936Z

Reserved: 2026-03-09T21:59:02.687Z

Link: CVE-2026-31890

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-13T16:24:52.988Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-03-12T18:16:24.573

Modified: 2026-03-16T17:54:39.960

Link: CVE-2026-31890

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-03-13T09:50:42Z

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