Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
cert-manager
Default version status: unaffected
0 to ≤ 1.12.14affected1.13.0-alpha.0 to ≤ 1.15.4affected1.16.0-alpha.0 to ≤ 1.16.2affected
Red Hat cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Default version status: affected
Red Hat cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Default version status: affected
Red Hat cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Default version status: affected
Red Hat cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Cryostat 3
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes
Default version status: affected
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
Default version status: affected
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
Default version status: affected
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
Default version status: affected
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
Default version status: affected
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
Default version status: affected
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
Default version status: affected
Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Connectivity Link 1
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Connectivity Link 1
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4
Default version status: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
Default version status: affected
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12401 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327929 ↗
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7400 ↗
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7401 ↗
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7402 ↗
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7403 ↗
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/security/advisories/GHSA-r4pg-vg54-wxx4 ↗
- https://go.dev/issue/50116 ↗