Upstream information
Description
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.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| CVSS detail | CNA (VulnCheck) |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.7 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 |
| CVSS detail | CNA (VulnCheck) |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 8.3 |
| Vector | 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Attack Requirements | None |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Vulnerable System Integrity Impact | None |
| Vulnerable System Availability Impact | High |
| Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Subsequent System Integrity Impact | None |
| Subsequent System Availability Impact | High |
| CVSSv4 Version | 4.0 |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Thu Nov 5 15:56:43 2026CVE page last modified: Fri Nov 6 17:58:15 2026