Upstream information

CVE-2023-42816 at MITRE

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 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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 5.3 6.1
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity High High
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction Required Required
Scope Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1217113 [RESOLVED / UPSTREAM]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Nov 13 23:00:12 2023
CVE page last modified: Tue Nov 21 17:34:27 2023