CVE-2024-12401

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

https://go.dev/issue/50116

https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/security/advisories/GHSA-r4pg-vg54-wxx4

https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7403

https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7402

https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7401

https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7400

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327929

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12401

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3