CVE-2026-23881

HIGH

7.7

Description

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have unbounded memory consumption in Kyverno's policy engine that allows users with policy creation privileges to cause denial of service by crafting policies that exponentially amplify string data through context variables. Versions 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 contain a patch for the vulnerability.

Details CVE

Score CVSS v3.17.7

SeveriteHIGH

Vecteur CVSSCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vecteur d'attaqueNETWORK

ComplexiteLOW

Privileges requisLOW

Interaction utilisateurNONE

Publie1/27/2026

Derniere modification2/2/2026

Sourcenvd

Observations honeypot0

Produits affectes

kyverno:kyverno

Faiblesses (CWE)

CWE-770

References

https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/7a651be3a8c78dcabfbf4178b8d89026bf3b850f(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/f5617f60920568a301740485472bf704892175b7(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-r2rj-wwm5-x6mq(security-advisories@github.com)

Correlations IOC

Aucune correlation enregistree

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