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Helm Unsafe Link Following

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 26, 2023

Package

gomod helm.sh/helm (Go)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, < 2.15.2

Patched versions

2.15.2

Description

In Helm 2.x before 2.15.2, commands that deal with loading a chart as a directory or packaging a chart provide an opportunity for a maliciously designed chart to include sensitive content such as /etc/passwd, or to execute a denial of service (DoS) via a special file such as /dev/urandom, via symlinks. No version of Tiller is known to be impacted. This is a client-only issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 12, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Jul 17, 2023
Last updated Sep 26, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.222%
(60th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-18658

GHSA ID

GHSA-p5pc-m4q7-7qm9

Source code

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