High (7.7). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in k8s.io/kubernetes 1.27.0-alpha.1.
A flaw was found in kube-controller-manager. This issue occurs when the initial application of a HPA config YAML lacking a .spec.behavior.scaleUp block causes a denial of service due to KCM pods going into restart churn.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.7 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)