CVE-2023-42813

Denial of service from malicious manifest in kyverno

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: November 13, 2023 at 08:34 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:24 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsKyvernoKyverno

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%

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.

Affected

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

CVSS

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

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400NVD-CWE-noinfo

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