Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows namespace-scoped policy authors to exhaust CPU and memory by submitting CEL expressions evaluated without runtime cost limits. Attackers can create a NamespacedValidatingPolicy or NamespacedDeletingPolicy with nested map comprehensions over large ConfigMap fields to OOM-kill Kyverno pods and block cluster-wide admission.

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Description Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows namespace-scoped policy authors to exhaust CPU and memory by submitting CEL expressions evaluated without runtime cost limits. Attackers can create a NamespacedValidatingPolicy or NamespacedDeletingPolicy with nested map comprehensions over large ConfigMap fields to OOM-kill Kyverno pods and block cluster-wide admission.
Title Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Unbounded CEL Policy Evaluation Cost
First Time appeared Kyverno
Kyverno kyverno
Weaknesses CWE-400
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:kyverno:kyverno:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Kyverno
Kyverno kyverno
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/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: 2026-11-05T02:25:12.280Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-122309

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-05T03:17:23.170

Modified: 2026-11-05T03:17:23.170

Link: CVE-2026-122309

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Updated: 2026-11-05T04:00:14Z

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