TI-2022-16478 Aliases CVE-2022-36055 GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh

Denial of service in Helm

LOW 31CWE-400Published 2022-09-01 · Updated 2025-04-23

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 3 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Helm is a tool for managing Charts. Charts are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources. Fuzz testing, provided by the CNCF, identified input to functions in the _strvals_ package that can cause an out of memory panic. The _strvals_ package contains a parser that turns strings in to Go structures. The _strvals_ package converts these strings into structures Go can work with. Some string inputs can cause array data structures to be created causing an out of memory panic. Applications that use the _strvals_ package in the Helm SDK to parse user supplied input can suffer a Denial of Service when that input causes a panic that cannot be recovered from. The Helm Client will panic with input to `--set`, `--set-string`, and other value setting flags that causes an out of memory panic. Helm is not a long running service so the panic will not affect future uses of the Helm client. This issue has been resolved in 3.9.4. SDK users can validate strings supplied by users won't create large arrays causing significant memory usage before passing them to the _strvals_ functions.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.01118 66th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial helm (helm): 3.9.4helm.sh/helm/v3 (Go): 3.9.4Red Hat: 3 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
helm	helm	before 3.9.4	3.9.4	Patch available	CNA
—	helm.sh/helm/v3 (Go)	before 3.9.4	3.9.4	Patch available	GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh

helm Vendorhelm Affected before 3.9.4 Fixed in 3.9.4 Patch available CNA
helm.sh/helm/v3 (Go) Vendor— Affected before 3.9.4 Fixed in 3.9.4 Patch available GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:helm:helm::::::::	3.0.0 to before 3.9.4	Vulnerable	helm

cpe:2.3:a:helm:helm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.0.0 to before 3.9.4 Vulnerable ·helm

Remediation

Fix · CNA helm (helm) Fixed in 3.9.4
Fix · GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh helm.sh/helm/v3 (Go) Fixed in 3.9.4 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
OpenShift Developer Tools and Services	Affected	No fix yet
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2	Affected	No fix yet
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2	Affected	No fix yet

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-36055
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh

References

Advisory 3

Other 3

TI-2024-16848 Dependency management path traversal in helm CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
TI-2026-45154 Helm Files.Lines Denial of Service via Empty Chart Files CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
TI-2023-10627 getHostByName Function Information Disclosure CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
TI-2019-15264 An issue was discovered in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Helm through 3.13.3. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
TI-2019-13497 In Helm 2.x before 2.15.2, commands that deal with loading a chart as a directory or… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2019-16052 Improper certificate validation in helm CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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