Kubernetes apimachinery packages vulnerable to unbounded recursion in JSON or YAML parsing

Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2023-02-08

Kubernetes apimachinery packages vulnerable to unbounded recursion in JSON or YAML parsing

Technologies: k8s.io/apimachinery (Go). Vendors: Go.

Quick answers

Is This vulnerability exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of This vulnerability being exploited in the wild.
How severe is This vulnerability?
Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 8 February 2023.
Which products and versions are affected?
k8s.io/apimachinery (Go) SEMVER:introduced=0,fixed=0.0.0-20190927203648-9ce6eca90e73.
Is there a fix for This vulnerability?
Yes. k8s.io/apimachinery (Go): upgrade to 0.0.0-20190927203648-9ce6eca90e73 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected?
Check whether you run k8s.io/apimachinery (Go) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • k8s.io/apimachinery (Go): upgrade to 0.0.0-20190927203648-9ce6eca90e73 or later
    go get k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.0.0-20190927203648-9ce6eca90e73

Affected products

  • k8s.io/apimachinery (Go) SEMVER:introduced=0,fixed=0.0.0-20190927203648-9ce6eca90e73

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