CVE-2026-84199

Kyverno before 1.16.2 SSRF via APICall Feature

HIGH
7.7
CVSS Score
Published: September 1, 2026 at 11:33 AM UTC
Updated: October 8, 2026 at 04:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKyverno

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Severity
HIGH7.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Kyverno before 1.16.2 contains a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the APICall feature. The URL field in a Policy's ServiceCall configuration is not validated, so a user with namespace-level Policy creation permissions can direct Kyverno to make HTTP requests to arbitrary internal resources (e.g., cloud metadata endpoints such as 169.254.169.254 or other tenants' resources). Because Kyverno executes these requests using its cluster-wide high-privilege ServiceAccount (a Confused Deputy problem), the responses—potentially including other tenants' secrets and cloud IAM credentials—are returned in the PolicyReport and can be read by the attacker, breaking multi-tenant isolation.

Affected

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

0 ≤ v < 1.16.20
Vendor states this is fixed in 1.16.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.7HIGHVulnCheck
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-918

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