CVE-2025-46342 HIGH

CVE-2025-46342: Kyverno vulnerable to bypass of policy rules that use namespace selectors in match statements

Vendor Kyverno
Product kyverno
Weakness CWE-1287
Published April 30, 2025
Last update April 30, 2025

CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to versions 1.13.5 and 1.14.0, it may happen that policy rules using namespace selector(s) in their match statements are mistakenly not applied during admission review request processing due to a missing error propagation in function `GetNamespaceSelectorsFromNamespaceLister` in `pkg/utils/engine/labels.go`. As a consequence, security-critical mutations and validations are bypassed, potentially allowing attackers with K8s API access to perform malicious operations. This issue has been patched in versions 1.13.5 and 1.14.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 30, 2025 CVE published
April 30, 2025 Record updated