CVE-2024-12401 (GCVE-0-2024-12401)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-12 09:06 – Updated: 2026-06-26 04:27
VLAI
Title
Cert-manager: potential dos when parsing specially crafted pem inputs
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-12 15:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.12.14 (semver)
Affected: 1.13.0-alpha.0 , ≤ 1.15.4 (semver)
Affected: 1.16.0-alpha.0 , ≤ 1.16.2 (semver)
Red Hat cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift     cpe:/a:redhat:cert_manager:1
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Red Hat Cryostat 3     cpe:/a:redhat:cryostat:3
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Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes     cpe:/a:redhat:multicluster_engine
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Red Hat OpenShift Serverless     cpe:/a:redhat:serverless:1
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Red Hat Red Hat Connectivity Link 1     cpe:/a:redhat:connectivity_link:1
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Date Public
2024-11-21 19:52
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