CVE-2024-12401

Dec. 12, 2024, 9:15 a.m.

4.4
Medium

Description

A flaw was found in the cert-manager package. This flaw allows an attacker who can modify PEM data that the cert-manager reads, for example, in a Secret resource, to use large amounts of CPU in the cert-manager controller pod to effectively create a denial-of-service (DoS) vector for the cert-manager in the cluster.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
cert-manager
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Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12401
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327929
https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7400
https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7401
https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7402
https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7403
https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/security/advisories/GHSA-r4pg-vg54-wxx4
https://go.dev/issue/50116

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-20
2024-12-12
CVE-2024-12401

CVSS Score

4.4 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: HIGH
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Dec. 12, 2024, 9:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Dec. 12, 2024, 9:15 a.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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