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TI-2025-18119 Aliases CVE-2025-24376GHSA-fc89-jghx-8pvg

The kubewarden-controller AdmissionPolicy and AdmissionPolicyGroup policies can be used to alter PolicyReport resources

Priority LOW 35CWE-155Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Low · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-285.

Summary

kubewarden-controller is a Kubernetes controller that allows you to dynamically register Kubewarden admission policies. By design, AdmissionPolicy and AdmissionPolicyGroup can evaluate only namespaced resources. The resources to be evaluated are determined by the rules provided by the user when defining the policy. There might be Kubernetes namespaced resources that should not be validated by AdmissionPolicy and by the AdmissionPolicyGroup policies because of their sensitive nature. For example, PolicyReport are namespaced resources that contain the list of non compliant objects found inside of a namespace. An attacker can use either an AdmissionPolicy or an AdmissionPolicyGroup to prevent the creation and update of PolicyReport objects to hide non-compliant resources. Moreover, the same attacker might use a mutating AdmissionPolicy to alter the contents of the PolicyReport created inside of the namespace. Starting from the 1.21.0 release, the validation rules applied to AdmissionPolicy and AdmissionPolicyGroup have been tightened to prevent them from validating sensitive types of namespaced resources.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00345 28th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed kubewarden-controller (kubewarden): 1.21.0github.com/kubewarden/kubewarden-controller (Go): 1.21.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
kubewardenkubewarden-controller1.7.0 to before 1.21.01.21.0Patch availableCNA
—github.com/kubewarden/kubewarden-controller (Go)1.7.0 to before 1.21.01.21.0Patch availableGHSA-fc89-jghx-8pvg
  • kubewarden-controller Vendorkubewarden Affected 1.7.0 to before 1.21.0 Fixed in 1.21.0 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/kubewarden/kubewarden-controller (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.7.0 to before 1.21.0 Fixed in 1.21.0 Patch available GHSA-fc89-jghx-8pvg

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA kubewarden-controller (kubewarden) Fixed in 1.21.0
  • Fix · GHSA-fc89-jghx-8pvg github.com/kubewarden/kubewarden-controller (Go) Fixed in 1.21.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-24376
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fc89-jghx-8pvg

References

  • TI-2026-83428 Case-sensitive registry check in Kubewarden trusted-repos-policy CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
  • TI-2025-18501 kubewarden-controller has an Information leak via AdmissionPolicyGroup Resource CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
  • TI-2026-30821 Kubewarden: RBAC Reconnaissance via unchecked can_i host capability call CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3

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