CVE-2022-36049

Flux2 Helm Controller denial of service

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 7, 2022 at 08:15 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:52 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsHelmFLUX2Helm Controller

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.23.0v < 0.32.00.0.17 ≤ v < 0.32.0
Affected range stops below 0.23.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 0.32.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
0.0.4 ≤ v < 0.23.0
Affected range stops below 0.23.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
3.0.0 ≤ v < 3.9.4
Affected range stops below 3.9.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (4)

x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=44996
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=48360
x_refsource_MISCx_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-770

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