CVE-2024-26147

SOURCE - github

Summary

A Helm contributor discovered uninitialized variable vulnerability when Helm parses index and plugin yaml files missing expected content.

Impact

When either an index.yaml file or a plugins plugin.yaml file were missing all metadata a panic would occur in Helm.

In the Helm SDK this is found when using the LoadIndexFile or DownloadIndexFile functions in the repo package or the LoadDir function in the plugin package. For the Helm client this impacts functions around adding a repository and all Helm functions if a malicious plugin is added as Helm inspects all known plugins on each invocation.

Patches

This issue has been resolved in Helm v3.14.2.

Workarounds

If a malicious plugin has been added which is causing all Helm client commands to panic, the malicious plugin can be manually removed from the filesystem.

If using Helm SDK versions prior to 3.14.2, calls to affected functions can use recover to catch the panic.

For more information

Helm's security policy is spelled out in detail in our SECURITY document.

Credits

Disclosed by Jakub Ciolek at AlphaSense.

EPSS Score: 0.00043 (0.094)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

SOURCE - nist

Use of Uninitialized Variable

SOURCE - github

Use of Uninitialized Variable

SOURCE - gitlab

OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

Use of Uninitialized Variable

OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

SOURCE - redhat

Use of Uninitialized Variable


GitHub

CREATED


UPDATED



EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

3.9


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

7.5high
PackageTypeOS NameOS VersionAffected RangesFix Versions
helm.sh/helm/v3golang--<3.14.23.14.2

CVSS:3 Severity and metrics

The CVSS metrics represent various qualitative aspects of a vulnerability that influence the overall score above.

The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack, but the attack is limited at the protocol level to a logically adjacent topology. This can mean an attack must be launched from the same shared physical (e.g., Bluetooth or IEEE 802.11) or logical (e.g., local IP subnet) network, or from within a secure or otherwise limited administrative domain (e.g., MPLS, secure VPN to an administrative network zone). One example of an Adjacent attack would be an ARP (IPv4) or neighbor discovery (IPv6) flood leading to a denial of service on the local LAN segment (e.g., CVE-2013-6014).

Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success when attacking the vulnerable component.

The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files of the vulnerable system to carry out an attack.

The vulnerable system can be exploited without interaction from any user.

An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.

There is no loss of confidentiality.

There is no loss of trust or accuracy within the impacted component.

There is a total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.

NIST

CREATED


UPDATED



EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

3.9


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

7.5high

Ubuntu

CREATED


UPDATED



EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Amedium

GoLang

CREATED


UPDATED



EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

GitLab

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CVE-2024-26147


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

3.9


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

7.5high

Bitnami

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

BIT-helm-2024-26147


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Ahigh

Red Hat

CREATED


UPDATED



EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

3.9


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

7.5medium

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-36wv-76w4-qx9x


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-2q69-4vcm-hm2w


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-47c6-49xx-rr4p


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-3jg2-5m28-f2v4


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-4v62-mgwp-fff2


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-6fhm-qph5-fvrj


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-6qr5-2pq4-4j8h


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-76fg-85mc-8728


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-87cp-vv6g-953p


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-7hpm-5vwh-wpjm


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-9p49-67j6-3fwx


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-cffv-prrf-jc52


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-crc8-wfgr-263v


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-cx4x-4xcg-64q6


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-fjmw-2v4h-gmw6


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-gwcx-28j8-h2f5


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-gxjr-qgvh-8rp5


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-p75f-jjr2-x29v


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-p8m8-xcqf-5mxr


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-q6xc-h255-cg48


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-r8j4-mfm2-9m2r


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-rp6f-6683-234c


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-w69x-4pr7-3qww


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-x234-xj6j-25f6


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-wqx2-j5x2-gmhg


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE

Chainguard

CREATED


UPDATED


SOURCE ID

CGA-xg36-qjh4-wc7w


EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-


EXPLOITS FOUND
-

COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM SOURCE