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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-15 | Published 2026-04-21 | Updated 2026-04-22 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Problem types

CWE-922: Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

Product status

< 1.16.4
affected

References

github.com/...yverno/security/advisories/GHSA-q93q-v844-jrqp exploit

github.com/...yverno/security/advisories/GHSA-q93q-v844-jrqp

cve.org (CVE-2026-40868)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40868)

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