CVE-2024-26147CWE-457

Helm's Missing YAML Content Leads To Panic

High · published February 21, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Helm is a package manager for Charts for Kubernetes. Versions prior to 3.14.2 contain an uninitialized variable vulnerability when Helm parses index and plugin yaml files missing expected content. When either an `index.yaml` file or a plugins `plugin.yaml` file were missing all metadata a panic would occur in Helm. In the Helm SDK, this is found when using the `LoadIndexFile` or `DownloadIndexFile` functions in the `repo` package or the `LoadDir` function in the `plugin` package. For the Helm client this impacts functions around adding a repository and all Helm functions if a malicious plugin is added as Helm inspects all known plugins on each invocation. This issue has been resolved in Helm v3.14.2. If a malicious plugin has been added which is causing all Helm client commands to panic, the malicious plugin can be manually removed from the filesystem. If using Helm SDK versions prior to 3.14.2, calls to affected functions can use `recover` to catch the panic.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00934 · 60.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-457 · Use of Uninitialized Variable
Published
2024-02-21T22:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 FEB 22:21Z
    Helm's Missing YAML Content Leads To Panic
    cvelistv5