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CVE-2024-12401: Duplicate Advisory: cert-manager ha a potential slowdown / DoS when parsing specially crafted PEM inputs

December 12, 2024

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-r4pg-vg54-wxx4. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original 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.

References

  • access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12401
  • bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327929
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-ghw8-3xqw-hhcj
  • github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager
  • github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7400
  • github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7401
  • github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7402
  • github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7403
  • github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/security/advisories/GHSA-r4pg-vg54-wxx4
  • go.dev/issue/50116
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12401

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.12.14, all versions starting from 1.13.0-alpha.0 before 1.15.4, all versions starting from 1.16.0-alpha.0 before 1.16.2

Fixed versions

  • 1.12.14
  • 1.15.4
  • 1.16.2

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.12.14, 1.15.4, 1.16.2 or above.

Impact 4.4 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Source file

go/github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/CVE-2024-12401.yml

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