CVE-2026-122306— Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Exponential-Time Wildcard Matching

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kyverno kyverno

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Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Kyverno 1.19.2 之前的版本存在一个拒绝服务（DoS）漏洞。该漏洞允许命名空间级别的策略作者通过提交恶意的通配符模式，耗尽准入控制器（admission controller）的 CPU 资源。攻击者可创建包含精心构造的和名称的策略，这些名称在函数中求值时会导致 CPU 核心被长时间占用，进而引发集群范围的 Webhook 超时，最终阻塞各类资源操作。

CVSS 7.7 · High Updated Nov 05, 2026

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1499 · Endpoint Denial of Service

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Vulnerability Title

Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Exponential-Time Wildcard Matching

Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Vulnerability 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.

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

算法复杂性

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-2026-122306 (2)

https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-8mrj-27wr-599g vendor-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kyverno-before-1.19.2-denial-of-service-via-exponential-time-wildcard-matching third-party-advisory

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-122306

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-2026-122312	7.7 HIGH	Kyverno 1.19.1 before 1.19.2 Namespace Isolation Bypass via APICall URLPath Query String
CVE-2026-122305	7.7 HIGH	Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Nested Variable Substitution Loop
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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