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CVE-2026-54462EUVD-2026-111135GHSA-J8GC-GXPV-W8RGGHSA-2HW4-C9M4-F2FJ

knative.dev/pkg admission webhooks allow unbounded request-body memory exhaustion

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Fix
Fixed in 0.0.0-20260531000007-52dbd5ece63f
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The knative.dev/pkg admission webhook server, which many Kubernetes projects share, can be made to use unlimited memory by a single oversized request from within the cluster network. This can crash the controller pod, which may block admissions for dependent projects such as Knative, Tekton, KEDA, Sigstore policy-controller, and Kpack.

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Knative pkg provides common packages shared across Knative repositories. Prior to 0.0.0-20260531000007-52dbd5ece63f, the knative.dev/pkg/webhook admissionHandler in webhook/admission.go decodes an attacker-supplied AdmissionReview through json.NewDecoder(io.TeeReader(r.Body, &bodyBuffer)) under an http.HandlerFunc without an http.MaxBytesReader or equivalent body-size limit. A pod-network client can send one oversized POST to an admission webhook, causing the decoder and bodyBuffer to retain amplified copies of the request until the controller pod exhausts memory and is OOM-killed. Every downstream consumer using the shared webhook server inherits the vulnerable behavior, including Knative, Tekton, KEDA, Sigstore policy-controller, and Kpack. For consumers configured with failurePolicy=Fail, loss of the controller can interrupt admission; with failurePolicy=Ignore, the affected webhook is unavailable while other admissions continue. This issue is fixed in version 0.0.0-20260531000007-52dbd5ece63f.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • knative pkg

    fixed in 0.0.0-20260531000007-52dbd5ece63f

  • knative.dev/pkgGo

    fixed in 0.0.0-20260531000007-52dbd5ece63f

References 3

GitHub · knative/pkg