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CVE-2026-122305— Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Nested Variable Substitution Loop

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Affected
kyverno kyverno
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
Recommended action
Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Kyverno 1.19.2 之前的版本在 函数中存在拒绝服务（DoS）漏洞。该漏洞允许低权限用户通过自引用变量模板使准入 Webhook 陷入挂起状态。攻击者可以创建资源，其注解会重新引入嵌入的策略变量，从而引发无限制的变量替换循环，耗尽 CPU 和内存资源，并阻塞整个集群的准入控制流程。

CVSS 7.7 · High

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1499 · Endpoint Denial of Service
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-122305

Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Nested Variable Substitution Loop
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in substituteVariablesIfAny that allows low-privileged users to hang the admission webhook via self-referential variable templates. Attackers can create resources whose annotations re-introduce the embedded policy variable, causing unbounded substitution loops that exhaust CPU and memory and block cluster-wide admission.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
不可达退出条件的循环(无限循环)
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
kyverno kyverno 0 ~ 1.19.2 -

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Other References for CVE-2026-122305 (2)

Same Patch Batch · kyverno · 2026-11-05 · 21 CVEs total

CVE-2026-122313 9.9 CRITICAL Kyverno 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 Cross-Namespace Privilege Escalation via NamespacedMutatingPo
CVE-2026-122310 9.9 CRITICAL Kyverno 1.19.1 before 1.19.2 Privilege Escalation via Policy apiCall urlPath
CVE-2026-122303 9.9 CRITICAL Kyverno 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 Cross-Namespace Resource Overwrite via NamespacedMutatingPoli
CVE-2026-122304 9.9 CRITICAL Kyverno 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 Privilege Escalation via CleanupPolicy Context Loader
CVE-2026-122311 9.9 CRITICAL Kyverno 1.16.0 before 1.19.2 Path Traversal in Namespaced CEL Policies via resource argume
CVE-2026-122302 9.8 CRITICAL Kyverno before 1.19.2 Privilege Escalation via Generate Rule Permission Check
CVE-2026-122321 9.1 CRITICAL Kyverno 1.18.0 before 1.19.2 verifyImages Cache Signature Verification Bypass
CVE-2026-122308 8.5 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Label Spoofing via Generation Handler processRequest
CVE-2026-122316 8.5 HIGH Kyverno 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 Cross-Namespace Write via NamespacedMutatingPolicy mutateExis
CVE-2026-122320 7.7 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Cross-Namespace Resource Read via generate.clone
CVE-2026-122307 7.7 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Policy Bypass via admissionpolicygenerator PolicyException Handling
CVE-2026-122318 7.7 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Cosign Identity Check Bypass via Empty SAN Certificates
CVE-2026-122306 7.7 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Exponential-Time Wildcard Matching
CVE-2026-122312 7.7 HIGH Kyverno 1.19.1 before 1.19.2 Namespace Isolation Bypass via APICall URLPath Query String
CVE-2026-122319 7.5 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via In/NotIn Operator Panic
CVE-2026-122322 7.5 HIGH Kyverno from 1.11.0 before 1.19.2 Memory Exhaustion via Notary Attestation Decompression
CVE-2026-122323 7.5 HIGH Kyverno 1.11.0 before 1.19.2 Memory Exhaustion via Notary Signature Decompression
CVE-2026-122314 7.5 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Shallow Variable Substitution Panic
CVE-2026-122315 7.5 HIGH Kyverno before 1.19.2 Image Verification Bypass via Attestation Type Panic
CVE-2026-122309 6.2 MEDIUM Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Unbounded CEL Policy Evaluation Cost

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Same weakness: CWE-835