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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

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

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

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Affected Vendors & Products

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-8mrj-27wr-599g cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kyverno-before-1.19.2-denial-of-service-via-exponential-time-wildcard-matching cve-icon
History

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Exponential-Time Wildcard Matching
First Time appeared Kyverno
Kyverno kyverno
Weaknesses CWE-407
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:kyverno:kyverno:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Kyverno
Kyverno kyverno
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'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'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-05T02:25:10.219Z

Reserved: 2026-11-04T23:23:51.290Z

Link: CVE-2026-122306

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