Vulnerability in Kyverno

CVE-2023-42814

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.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.1 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (50.1th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 50.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2023-42814: held from 0.007 to 0.007.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Kyverno — versions >= 80d139bb5d1d9d7e907abe851b97dc73821a5be2, < fec2992e3f9fcd6b9c62267522c09b182e7df73b
  • Nirmata Kyverno — versions 1.11.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-42814?
CVE-2023-42814 is a low-severity vulnerability in Kyverno, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 3.1/10. Published 2023-11-13.
How severe is CVE-2023-42814?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.1 out of 10.