About “Kyverno”

A curated feed of “Kyverno”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 23 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 11 were published. Average CVSS is 7.0 (all time; 8.2 over 365d), and 61% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization, CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'), CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a MODERATE impact class. Container and Kubernetes fixes usually require image rebuilds and control plane or node upgrades. Prioritize exposed surfaces, restart workloads on patched bases, and tighten RBAC and NetworkPolicies. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

Support & lifecycle: kyverno

This table shows recent release cycles and their projected end-of-life. Data source: endoflife.date.

CycleReleaseLatestEOLLTS
1.171.17.2-
1.161.16.4-
1.151.15.20-
1.141.14.5 Expired
1.131.13.6 Expired
1.121.12.7 Expired
1.111.11.5 Expired
1.101.10.7 Expired
1.91.9.5 Expired
1.81.8.5 Expired

Maintained Soon (≤ 180 days) Expired

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2026-05-12
Medium

CVE-2026-44245

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to 2.5.2, Vue 3's v-html directive is the framework-documented mechanism for injecting raw HTML, and it intentio…

2026-04-24
High

CVE-2026-41485

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to versions 1.17.2 and 1.16.4, an unchecked type assertion in the `forEach` mutation handler allows any user wit…

High

CVE-2026-41323

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to versions 1.18.0-rc1, 1.17.2-rc1, and 1.16.4, Kyverno's apiCall feature in ClusterPolicy automatically attache…

High

CVE-2026-41068

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. The patch for CVE-2026-22039 fixed cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno's `apiCall` context by validating t…

2026-04-21
High

CVE-2026-40868

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to 1.16.4, kyverno’s apiCall servicecall helper implicitly injects Authorization: Bearer ... using the kyverno c…

2026-03-30
Critical

CVE-2026-4789

Kyverno, versions 1.16.0 and later, are vulnerable to SSRF due to unrestricted CEL HTTP functions.

2026-01-27
High

CVE-2026-23881

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have unbounded memory consumption in Kyverno's policy engine that allows users wit…

Critical

CVE-2026-22039

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have a critical authorization boundary bypass in namespaced Kyverno Policy apiCall…

2026-01-21
High

CVE-2026-22822

External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Starting in version 0.20.2 and prior to version 1.2.0, the `getSecr…

2025-10-10
High

CVE-2025-62159

External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. A vulnerability was discovered in the BeyondTrust provider implement…

2025-07-23
High

CVE-2025-47281

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. In versions 1.14.1 and below, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists due to improper handling of JMESPath vari…

2025-04-30
High

CVE-2025-46342

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 statem…

2025-03-24
Medium

CVE-2025-29778

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to version 1.14.0-alpha.1, Kyverno ignores subjectRegExp and IssuerRegExp while verifying artifact's sign with k…

2024-10-29
Low

CVE-2024-48921

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. A kyverno ClusterPolicy, ie. "disallow-privileged-containers," can be overridden by the creation of a PolicyException in a random namespace. By des…

2023-11-14
High

CVE-2023-47630

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. An issue was found in Kyverno that allowed an attacker to control the digest of images used by Kyverno users. The issue would require the attacker…

2023-11-13
Medium

CVE-2023-42816

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. A security vulnerability was found in Kyverno where an attacker could cause denial of service of Kyverno. The vulnerability was in Kyvernos Notary…

Low

CVE-2023-42815

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. A security vulnerability was found in Kyverno where an attacker could cause denial of service of Kyverno. The vulnerability was in Kyvernos Notary…

Low

CVE-2023-42814

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. A security vulnerability was found in Kyverno where an attacker could cause denial of service of Kyverno. The vulnerable component in Kyvernos Nota…

Medium

CVE-2023-42813

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. A security vulnerability was found in Kyverno where an attacker could cause denial of service of Kyverno. The vulnerable component in Kyvernos Nota…

2023-06-01
Medium

CVE-2023-34091

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. In versions of Kyverno prior to 1.10.0, resources which have the `deletionTimestamp` field defined can bypass validate, generate, or mutate-existin…

2023-05-30
Medium

CVE-2023-33191

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. Kyverno seccomp control can be circumvented. Users of the podSecurity `validate.podSecurity` subrule in Kyverno 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 are vulnerable. Thi…

2022-12-23
High

CVE-2022-47633

An image signature validation bypass vulnerability in Kyverno 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 allows a malicious image registry (or a man-in-the-middle attacker) to inject unsigned arbitrary container images into a…

2021-11-12
High

CVE-2021-41254

kustomize-controller is a Kubernetes operator, specialized in running continuous delivery pipelines for infrastructure and workloads defined with Kubernetes manifests and assembled with Kustomize. Us…

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