CVE-2025-47281

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47281
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-47281.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-47281
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-23T21:15:26Z
Modified
2025-08-05T16:48:09.350014Z
Summary
[none]
Details

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. In versions 1.14.1 and below, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists due to improper handling of JMESPath variable substitutions. Attackers with permissions to create or update Kyverno policies can craft expressions using the {{@}} variable combined with a pipe and an invalid JMESPath function (e.g., {{@ | nonexistentfunction }}). This leads to a nil value being substituted into the policy structure. Subsequent processing by internal functions, specifically getValueAsStringMap, which expect string values, results in a panic due to a type assertion failure (interface {} is nil, not string). This crashes Kyverno worker threads in the admission controller and causes continuous crashes of the reports controller pod. This is fixed in version 1.14.2.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kyverno/kyverno

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.0-rc10
1.6-dev
1.7-dev
1.8-dev
1.9-dev

helm-chart-v2.*

helm-chart-v2.0.3
helm-chart-v2.0.3-rc1
helm-chart-v2.0.3-rc2
helm-chart-v2.1.0
helm-chart-v2.1.3

kyverno-chart-3.*

kyverno-chart-3.4.0
kyverno-chart-3.4.0-alpha.1
kyverno-chart-3.4.0-rc.1
kyverno-chart-3.4.1

kyverno-policies-chart-3.*

kyverno-policies-chart-3.4.0
kyverno-policies-chart-3.4.0-alpha.1
kyverno-policies-chart-3.4.0-rc.1
kyverno-policies-chart-3.4.1

Other

test-dev

v0.*

v0.1.0
v0.10.0
v0.11.0
v0.2.0
v0.3.0
v0.4.0
v0.5.0
v0.6.0
v0.7.0
v0.7.1
v0.8.0
v0.9.0
v0.9.1

v1.*

v1.0.0
v1.0.0-rc1
v1.1.0
v1.1.1
v1.1.10
v1.1.11
v1.1.12
v1.1.2
v1.1.3
v1.1.3-rc1
v1.1.4
v1.1.4-rc1
v1.1.5
v1.1.6
v1.1.6-rc1
v1.1.6-rc2
v1.1.6-rc3
v1.1.6-rc4
v1.1.6-rc5
v1.1.7
v1.1.7-rc1
v1.1.7-rc2
v1.1.7-rc3
v1.1.7-rc4
v1.1.8
v1.1.9
v1.14.0
v1.14.0-alpha.1
v1.14.0-rc.1
v1.14.1
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.3.0
v1.3.0-rc1
v1.3.0-rc10
v1.3.0-rc11
v1.3.0-rc12
v1.3.0-rc2
v1.3.0-rc3
v1.3.0-rc4
v1.3.0-rc5
v1.3.0-rc6
v1.3.0-rc7
v1.3.0-rc8
v1.3.0-rc9
v1.3.1
v1.3.2
v1.3.2-rc1
v1.3.2-rc2
v1.3.2-rc3
v1.3.3
v1.3.4
v1.3.4-rc1
v1.3.5
v1.3.5-rc1
v1.3.5-rc2
v1.3.5-rc3
v1.3.5-rc4
v1.3.5-rc5
v1.3.6
v1.3.6-rc1
v1.3.6-rc2
v1.3.6-rc3
v1.3.6-rc4
v1.3.6-rc5
v1.4.0
v1.4.0-rc1
v1.4.0-rc2
v1.4.0-rc3
v1.4.0-rc4
v1.4.1
v1.4.2
v1.4.2-rc1
v1.4.2-rc2
v1.4.2-rc3
v1.4.2-rc4
v1.4.3
v1.4.3-rc1
v1.4.3-rc2
v1.5.0-rc1