CVE-2022-36049

HIGH

Helm 3.0.0-3.9.3 and Flux2 0.0.17-0.31.9 - Denial of Service via Memory Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Flux2 is a tool for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration, and Flux's helm-controller is a Kubernetes operator that allows one to declaratively manage Helm chart releases. Helm controller is tightly integrated with the Helm SDK. A vulnerability found in the Helm SDK that affects flux2 v0.0.17 until v0.32.0 and helm-controller v0.0.4 until v0.23.0 allows for specific data inputs to cause high memory consumption. In some platforms, this could cause the controller to panic and stop processing reconciliations. In a shared cluster multi-tenancy environment, a tenant could create a HelmRelease that makes the controller panic, denying all other tenants from their Helm releases being reconciled. Patches are available in flux2 v0.32.0 and helm-controller v0.23.0.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=44996
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=48360

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0101
EPSS Percentile 58.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400 CWE-770
Status published
Products (5)
fluxcd/flux2 0.0.17 - 0.32.0
fluxcd/flux2 0.0.17 - 0.32.0Go
fluxcd/helm-controller 0.0.4 - 0.23.0
fluxcd/helm-controller 0.0.4 - 0.23.0Go
helm/helm 3.0.0 - 3.9.4
Published Sep 07, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026