CVE-2024-12401 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-12401: Cert-manager: potential dos when parsing specially crafted pem inputs

Vendor Red Hat
Product cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published December 12, 2024
Last update March 27, 2026

CVSS base score

4.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 12, 2024 CVE published
March 27, 2026 Record updated