CVE-2023-42814

LOW IN THE WILD

Nirmata Kyverno - Infinite Loop

Title source: rule

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 3.1
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 32.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

InTheWild.io 2023-11-14
CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (1)
nirmata/kyverno 1.11.0
Published Nov 13, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026