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GHSA-4hfp-h4cw-hj8p Helm Allows A Specially Crafted Chart Archive To Cause Out Of Memory Termination

MEDIUM Published 2025-04-10 Modified 2025-04-10 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-32386
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
helm.sh/helm/v3
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770, CWE-789
Reviewed
2025-04-10

Affected packages

• Go helm.sh/helm/v3: < 3.17.3 → fixed in 3.17.3

Description

A Helm contributor discovered that a specially crafted chart archive file can cause Helm to use all available memory and have an out of memory (OOM) termination. Impact A chart archive file can be crafted in a manner where it expands to be significantly larger uncompressed than compressed (e.g., >800x difference). When Helm loads this specially crafted chart, memory can be exhausted causing the application to terminate. Patches This issue has been resolved in Helm v3.17.3. Workarounds Ensure that any chart archive files being loaded by Helm do not contain files that are large enough to cause the Helm Client or SDK to use up available memory leading to a termination. For more information Helm's security policy is spelled out in detail in our SECURITY document. Credits Disclosed by Jakub Ciolek at AlphaSense.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value weakness

References