CVE-2025-55199 (GCVE-0-2025-55199)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 23:23 – Updated: 2025-08-14 14:50
VLAI
Title
Helm Charts with Specific JSON Schema Values Can Cause Memory Exhaustion
Summary
Helm is a package manager for Charts for Kubernetes. Prior to version 3.18.5, it is possible to craft a JSON Schema file in a manner which could cause Helm to use all available memory and have an out of memory (OOM) termination. This issue has been resolved in Helm 3.18.5. A workaround involves ensuring all Helm charts that are being loaded into Helm do not have any reference of $ref pointing to /dev/zero.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-14 13:41 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7763 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
helm helm Affected: < 3.18.5
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