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CVE-2026-122308

8.5, high

kyverno Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Vulnerability

NVD (opens in a new tab) CVE.org (opens in a new tab)
CVSS
8.5, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
n/a
Exploitation
No public evidence
Published
5 Nov 2026today

Description

Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the Generation Handler that allows users with create/update permissions to trigger synchronized generate policies by spoofing internal generate.kyverno.io labels. Attackers can label a ConfigMap as managed-by kyverno with crafted policy, rule, and trigger labels to clone sensitive Secrets from restricted namespaces into their own namespace.

Details

Vendor
Kyverno
Product
kyverno
Weakness
CWE-639 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Received
Updated
5 Nov 2026
Assigner
disclosure@vulncheck.com

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

References 2

Advisories 1

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other Kyverno CVEs

Every Kyverno CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2026-122302 kyverno Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2026-122303 kyverno Missing Authorization Vulnerability 9.9, critical
  • CVE-2026-122304 kyverno Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability 9.9, critical
  • CVE-2026-122310 Kyverno from 1.19.1 before 1.19.2 validates a Policy's context.apiCall urlPath after cleaning it but executes the raw path, whose… 9.9, critical
  • CVE-2026-122311 kyverno Path Traversal Vulnerability 9.9, critical
  • CVE-2026-122313 kyverno Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability 9.9, critical
  • CVE-2026-122321 kyverno Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Race Condition Vulnerability 9.1, critical
  • CVE-2026-122305 Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in substituteVariablesIfAny that allows low-privileged users to hang… 7.7, high

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 5 Nov 2026, not the live upstream state.