Vulnerability in Kyverno

CVE-2023-42816

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 vulnerability was in Kyvernos Notary verifier. An attacker would need control over the registry from which Kyverno would fetch signatures. 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.

EPSS: 0.005 (37.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-42816?
CVE-2023-42816 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kyverno, classified under Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-11-13.
How severe is CVE-2023-42816?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.