CVE-2026-122309

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    CVE-2026-122309

    Published: 5 Nov 2026Last Modified: 7 Nov 2026

    Summary: Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Unbounded CEL Policy Evaluation Cost

    Details: Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows namespace-scoped policy authors to exhaust CPU and memory by submitting CEL expressions evaluated without runtime cost limits. Attackers can create a NamespacedValidatingPolicy or NamespacedDeletingPolicy with nested map comprehensions over large ConfigMap fields to OOM-kill Kyverno pods and block cluster-wide admission.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/122xxx/CVE-2026-122309.json, https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-m8p2-qqmx-j53x, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-122309, https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kyverno-before-1.19.2-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-cel-policy-evaluation-cost

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -e63308f1e16c05cd009ac4864be6ec25c66b49be

    Affected versions

    kyverno-policies-chart-3.9.2-rc.5
    kyverno-policies-chart-3.9.1
    kyverno-policies-chart-3.9.0
    kyverno-policies-chart-3.9.0-rc.4
    kyverno-policies-chart-3.9.0-rc.3
    kyverno-policies-chart-3.9.0-rc.2
    kyverno-policies-chart-3.9.0-rc.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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