CVE-2024-12401
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.65%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.65% probability · 49th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.