CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-42814
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.1 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
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 vulnerable component in Kyvernos Notary verifier. An attacker would need control over the registry from which Kyverno would fetch attestations. 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 configurations
• nirmata kyverno 1.11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/80d139bb5d1d9d7e907abe851b97dc73821a5be2 Patch
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/fec2992e3f9fcd6b9c62267522c09b182e7df73b Patch
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/pull/8428 Patch
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-9g37-h7p2-2c6r Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/80d139bb5d1d9d7e907abe851b97dc73821a5be2 Patch
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/fec2992e3f9fcd6b9c62267522c09b182e7df73b Patch
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/pull/8428 Patch
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-9g37-h7p2-2c6r Vendor Advisory