Advisories

Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Unbounded CEL Policy Evaluation Cost

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Severity
high
Date
Affecting
  • kyverno >= 0, < 1.19.2

CWE
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS
8.2
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
Credit
1diot9
Description
Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows namespace-scoped policy authors to exhaust CPU and memory by submitting CEL expressions evaluated without runtime cost limits. Attackers can create a NamespacedValidatingPolicy or NamespacedDeletingPolicy with nested map comprehensions over large ConfigMap fields to OOM-kill Kyverno pods and block cluster-wide admission.

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