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CVE-2026-122306

8.3 high

High (8.3) in kyverno kyverno.

Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows namespaced policy authors to exhaust admission controller CPU by submitting pathological wildcard patterns. Attackers can create a Policy with crafted match and exclude names evaluated by ValidateMatchExcludeConflict, pinning cores and causing cluster-wide webhook timeouts that block resource operations.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.3 high
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H

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
CWE
CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
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Versions

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ProductAffected
kyvernobefore 1.19.2

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