Upstream information

CVE-2024-12401 at MITRE

Description

A flaw was found in the cert-manager package. This flaw allows an attacker who can modify PEM data that the cert-manager reads, for example, in a Secret resource, to use large amounts of CPU in the cert-manager controller pod to effectively create a denial-of-service (DoS) vector for the cert-manager in the cluster.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (Red Hat)
Base Score 4.4
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container:latest
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/toolbox:latest
Image SL-Micro
Image SL-Micro-Base
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-qcow
Image SL-Micro-Default
Image SL-Micro-Default-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Default-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Default-qcow
  • less >= 633-3.1
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-EC2
  • cloud-netconfig-ec2 >= 1.15-slfo.1.1_1.1
  • less >= 633-3.1
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-GCE
Image SLE-Micro-GCE
  • cloud-netconfig-gce >= 1.15-slfo.1.1_1.1
  • less >= 633-3.1
Image SLE-Micro
Image SLE-Micro-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure
  • cloud-netconfig-azure >= 1.15-slfo.1.1_1.1
  • less >= 633-3.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20241213T205935-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-14599

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Dec 10 16:00:09 2024
CVE page last modified: Tue May 19 12:19:24 2026