CVE-2026-23881

🔴 HIGH

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have unbounded memory consumption in Kyverno's policy engine that allows users with...

Published
Jan 27, 2026
Last Modified
Feb 02, 2026
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Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have unbounded memory consumption in Kyverno's policy engine that allows users with policy creation privileges to cause denial of service by crafting policies that exponentially amplify string data through context variables. Versions 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 contain a patch for the vulnerability.

Affected Products (1)

kyverno - kyverno

Version: *

CVSS Scores

CVSS 3.1 7.7
7.7
HIGH
CVSS 2.0 7.7

Additional Information

Source
security-advisories@github.com
State
Analyzed

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