FKIE_CVE-2024-12401

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-12-12 09:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:59
Severity
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12401
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327929
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7400
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7401
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7402
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7403
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/security/advisories/GHSA-r4pg-vg54-wxx4
secalert@redhat.comhttps://go.dev/issue/50116
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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