Vulnerability · Published Nov 13, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-42816Denial of service from malicious signature in kyverno

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity insufficient verification of data authenticity in kyverno from kyverno. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. A security vulnerability was found in Kyverno where an attacker could cause denial of service of Kyverno. The vulnerability was in Kyvernos Notary verifier. An attacker would need control over the registry from which Kyverno would fetch signatures. With such a position, the attacker could return a malicious response to Kyverno, when Kyverno would send a request to the registry. The malicious response would cause denial of service of Kyverno, such that other users' admission requests would be blocked from being processed. This is a vulnerability in a new component released in v1.11.0. The only users affected by this are those that have been building Kyverno from source at the main branch which is not encouraged. Users consuming official Kyverno releases are not affected. There are no known cases of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Gogithub.com/kyverno/kyverno1.5.0-rc1.0.20230918070231-fec2992e3f9fGO-2023-2338

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
kyverno kyverno >= 80d139bb5d1d9d7e907abe851b97dc73821a5be2, < fec2992e3f9fcd6b9c62267522c09b182e7df73b

Weakness: CWE-345 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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