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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-12401

Affected Products

Vendor: Red Hat

Product: cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.21% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 59.34% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

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

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