Helm is a tool for managing Charts, pre-configured Kubernetes resources. Versions prior to 3.10.3 are subject to NULL Pointer Dereference in the _repo_package. The _repo_ package contains a handler that processes the index file of a repository. For example, the Helm client adds references to chart repositories where charts are managed. The _repo_ package parses the index file of the repository and loads it into structures Go can work with. Some index files can cause array data structures to be created causing a memory violation. Applications that use the _repo_ package in the Helm SDK to parse an index file can suffer a Denial of Service when that input causes a panic that cannot be recovered from. The Helm Client will panic with an index file that causes a memory violation panic. Helm is not a long running service so the panic will not affect future uses of the Helm client. This issue has been patched in 3.10.3. SDK users can validate index files that are correctly formatted before passing them to the _repo_ functions.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Helm is a tool for managing Charts, pre-configured Kubernetes resources. Versions prior to 3.10.3 are
    subject to NULL Pointer Dereference in the _repo_package. The _repo_ package contains a handler that
    processes the index file of a repository. For example, the Helm client adds references to chart
    repositories where charts are managed. The _repo_ package parses the index file of the repository and
    loads it into structures Go can work with. Some index files can cause array data structures to be created
    causing a memory violation. Applications that use the _repo_ package in the Helm SDK to parse an index
    file can suffer a Denial of Service when that input causes a panic that cannot be recovered from. The Helm
    Client will panic with an index file that causes a memory violation panic. Helm is not a long running
    service so the panic will not affect future uses of the Helm client. This issue has been patched in
    3.10.3. SDK users can validate index files that are correctly formatted before passing them to the _repo_
    functions. (CVE-2022-23525)

The version of helm installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2022-23525 advisory.

  - Helm is a tool for managing Charts, pre-configured Kubernetes resources. Versions prior to 3.10.3 are     subject to NULL Pointer Dereference in the _repo_package. The _repo_ package contains a handler that     processes the index file of a repository. For example, the Helm client adds references to chart     repositories where charts are managed. The _repo_ package parses the index file of the repository and     loads it into structures Go can work with. Some index files can cause array data structures to be created     causing a memory violation. Applications that use the _repo_ package in the Helm SDK to parse an index     file can suffer a Denial of Service when that input causes a panic that cannot be recovered from. The Helm     Client will panic with an index file that causes a memory violation panic. Helm is not a long running     service so the panic will not affect future uses of the Helm client. This issue has been patched in     3.10.3. SDK users can validate index files that are correctly formatted before passing them to the _repo_     functions. (CVE-2022-23525)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4606-1 advisory.

    Update to version 3.10.3:

    - CVE-2022-23524: Fixed a denial of service in the string value parsing (bsc#1206467).
    - CVE-2022-23525: Fixed a denial of service with the repository index file (bsc#1206469).
    - CVE-2022-23526: Fixed a denial of service in the schema file handling (bsc#1206471).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
410527	SCA: security update for helm.sh/helm/v3 (GHSA-53c4-hhmh-vw5q)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
410527	SCA: security update for helm.sh/helm/v3 (GHSA-53c4-hhmh-vw5q)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
172898	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: helm (CVE-2022-23525)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	high
169282	SUSE SLED15: helm / helm-bash-completion / helm-fish-completion / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:4606-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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CVE-2022-23525

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Tenable Plugins

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high

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