- Description
- Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. In versions 1.14.1 and below, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists due to improper handling of JMESPath variable substitutions. Attackers with permissions to create or update Kyverno policies can craft expressions using the {{@}} variable combined with a pipe and an invalid JMESPath function (e.g., {{@ | non_existent_function }}). This leads to a nil value being substituted into the policy structure. Subsequent processing by internal functions, specifically getValueAsStringMap, which expect string values, results in a panic due to a type assertion failure (interface {} is nil, not string). This crashes Kyverno worker threads in the admission controller and causes continuous crashes of the reports controller pod. This is fixed in version 1.14.2.
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Products
- kyverno
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 7.7
- Impact score
- 4
- Exploitability score
- 3.1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
- security-advisories@github.com
- CWE-20
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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