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CVE-2026-40868GO-2026-5575BIT-KYVERNO-2026-40868GHSA-Q93Q-V844-JRQP

kyverno apicall servicecall implicit bearer token injection leaks kyverno serviceaccount token

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.16.4, 1.17.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to 1.16.4, kyverno’s apiCall servicecall helper implicitly injects Authorization: Bearer ... using the kyverno controller serviceaccount token when a policy does not explicitly set an Authorization header. Because context.apiCall.service.url is policy-controlled, this can send the kyverno serviceaccount token to an attacker-controlled endpoint (confused deputy). Namespaced policies are blocked from servicecall usage by the namespaced urlPath gate in pkg/engine/apicall/apiCall.go, so this report is scoped to ClusterPolicy and global context usage. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.4.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • kyverno kyverno

    fixed in 1.16.4

  • github.com/kyverno/kyvernoGo

    fixed in 1.17.0

References 1

GitHub · kyverno/kyverno