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Description

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Prior to versions 1.17.2 and 1.16.4, an unchecked type assertion in the `forEach` mutation handler allows any user with permission to create a `Policy` or `ClusterPolicy` to crash the cluster-wide background controller into a persistent CrashLoopBackOff. The same bug also causes the admission controller to drop connections and block all matching resource operations. The crash loop persists until the policy is deleted. The vulnerability is confined to the legacy engine, and CEL-based policies are unaffected. Versions 1.17.2 and 1.16.4 fix the issue.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-20 | Published 2026-04-24 | Updated 2026-04-24 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

CWE-617: Reachable Assertion

Product status

< 1.16.4
affected

>= 1.17.0-rc1, < 1.17.2
affected

References

github.com/...yverno/security/advisories/GHSA-fpjq-c37h-cqcv

github.com/...ommit/76c8fdbe87328722e099e1fd44c3f21c9f7809cb

github.com/...ommit/80e728c2283a0c65e5adb02d8a907106e6ebe7e3

cve.org (CVE-2026-41485)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-41485)

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