CVE-2026-122304: critical vulnerability in kyverno
Kyverno 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 Privilege Escalation via CleanupPolicy Context Loader
Published
E-mail alert when it lands in KEV, gets a public PoC or its score goes up.
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.4epss 0.4%
Kyverno from 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows namespace admins to escape namespace confinement because the cleanup controller builds its context loader with a nil policy. Attackers can create a namespaced CleanupPolicy with apiCall or globalReference context entries to read cross-namespace Secrets and modify validatingwebhookconfigurations using the cleanup controller's ServiceAccount.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Affected products
kyverno · kyvernoRelated CVEs — kyverno
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-46342HIGHKyverno vulnerable to bypass of policy rules that use namespace selectors in match statementsEPSS 0.8%CVE-2023-42814LOWDenial of service from malicious image manifest in kyvernoEPSS 0.7%CVE-2023-42815LOWDenial of service from malicious image manifest in kyvernoEPSS 0.7%CVE-2023-42813MEDIUMDenial of service from malicious manifest in kyvernoEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-23881HIGHKyverno Denial of Service via Context Variable Amplification in Policy EngineEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-100706CRITICALkyverno before 1.19.1 Privilege Escalation via Policy apiCall urlPathEPSS 0.6%