kubewarden-controller is a Kubernetes controller that allows you to dynamically register Kubewarden admission policies. The policy group feature, added to by the 1.17.0 release. By being namespaced, the AdmissionPolicyGroup has a well constrained impact on cluster resources. Hence, it’s considered safe to allow non-admin users to create and manage these resources in the namespaces they own. Kubewarden policies can be allowed to query the Kubernetes API at evaluation time; these types of policies are called “context aware“. Context aware policies can perform list and get operations against a Kubernetes cluster. The queries are done using the ServiceAccount of the Policy Server instance that hosts the policy. That means that access to the cluster is determined by the RBAC rules that apply to that ServiceAccount. The AdmissionPolicyGroup CRD allowed the deployment of context aware policies. This could allow an attacker to obtain information about resources that are out of their reach, by leveraging a higher access to the cluster granted to the ServiceAccount token used to run the policy. The impact of this vulnerability depends on the privileges that have been granted to the ServiceAccount used to run the Policy Server and assumes that users are using the recommended best practices of keeping the Policy Server's ServiceAccount least privileged. By default, the Kubewarden helm chart grants access to the following resources (cluster wide) only: Namespace, Pod, Deployment and Ingress. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.21.0.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0429-1 advisory.

    - Update to version 0.0.20250207T224745 2025-02-07T22:47:45Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2025-3456 CVE-2025-24786 GHSA-9r4c-jwx3-3j76
      * GO-2025-3457 CVE-2025-24787 GHSA-c7w4-9wv8-7x7c
      * GO-2025-3458 CVE-2025-24366 GHSA-vj7w-3m8c-6vpx

    - Update to version 0.0.20250206T175003 2025-02-06T17:50:03Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2023-1867 CVE-2022-47930 GHSA-c58h-qv6g-fw74
      * GO-2024-3244 CVE-2024-50354 GHSA-cph5-3pgr-c82g

    - Update to version 0.0.20250206T165438 2025-02-06T16:54:38Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2025-3428 CVE-2025-22867
      * GO-2025-3447 CVE-2025-22866

    - Update to version 0.0.20250205T232745 2025-02-05T23:27:45Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2025-3408
      * GO-2025-3448 GHSA-23qp-3c2m-xx6w
      * GO-2025-3449 GHSA-mx2j-7cmv-353c
      * GO-2025-3450 GHSA-w7wm-2425-7p2h
      * GO-2025-3454 GHSA-mj4v-hp69-27x5
      * GO-2025-3455 GHSA-vqv5-385r-2hf8

    - Update to version 0.0.20250205T003520 2025-02-05T00:35:20Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2025-3451

    - Update to version 0.0.20250204T220613 2025-02-04T22:06:13Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2025-3431 CVE-2025-24884 GHSA-hcr5-wv4p-h2g2
      * GO-2025-3433 CVE-2025-23216 GHSA-47g2-qmh2-749v
      * GO-2025-3434 CVE-2025-24376 GHSA-fc89-jghx-8pvg
      * GO-2025-3435 CVE-2025-24784 GHSA-756x-m4mj-q96c
      * GO-2025-3436 CVE-2025-24883 GHSA-q26p-9cq4-7fc2
      * GO-2025-3437 GHSA-274v-mgcv-cm8j
      * GO-2025-3438 CVE-2024-11741 GHSA-wxcc-2f3q-4h58
      * GO-2025-3442 CVE-2025-24371 GHSA-22qq-3xwm-r5x4
      * GO-2025-3443 GHSA-r3r4-g7hq-pq4f
      * GO-2025-3444 CVE-2024-35177
      * GO-2025-3445 CVE-2024-47770

    - Use standard RPM macros to unpack the source and populate a       working directory. Fixes build with RPM 4.20.

    - Update to version 0.0.20250130T185858 2025-01-30T18:58:58Z.
      Refs jsc#PED-11136       Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:
      * GO-2024-2842 CVE-2024-3727 GHSA-6wvf-f2vw-3425
      * GO-2024-3181 CVE-2024-9313 GHSA-x5q3-c8rm-w787
      * GO-2024-3188 CVE-2024-9312 GHSA-4gfw-wf7c-w6g2
      * GO-2025-3372 CVE-2024-45339 GHSA-6wxm-mpqj-6jpf
      * GO-2025-3373 CVE-2024-45341
      * GO-2025-3383 CVE-2024-45340
      * GO-2025-3408
      * GO-2025-3412 CVE-2024-10846 GHSA-36gq-35j3-p9r9
      * GO-2025-3420 CVE-2024-45336
      * GO-2025-3421 CVE-2025-22865
      * GO-2025-3424 CVE-2025-24369
      * GO-2025-3426 CVE-2025-0750 GHSA-hp5j-2585-qx6g
      * GO-2025-3427 CVE-2024-13484 GHSA-58fx-7v9q-3g56

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.

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

  - kubewarden-controller is a Kubernetes controller that allows you to dynamically register Kubewarden
    admission policies. The policy group feature, added to by the 1.17.0 release. By being namespaced, the
    AdmissionPolicyGroup has a well constrained impact on cluster resources. Hence, it’s considered safe to
    allow non-admin users to create and manage these resources in the namespaces they own. Kubewarden policies
    can be allowed to query the Kubernetes API at evaluation time; these types of policies are called “context
    aware“. Context aware policies can perform list and get operations against a Kubernetes cluster. The
    queries are done using the ServiceAccount of the Policy Server instance that hosts the policy. That means
    that access to the cluster is determined by the RBAC rules that apply to that ServiceAccount. The
    AdmissionPolicyGroup CRD allowed the deployment of context aware policies. This could allow an attacker to
    obtain information about resources that are out of their reach, by leveraging a higher access to the
    cluster granted to the ServiceAccount token used to run the policy. The impact of this vulnerability
    depends on the privileges that have been granted to the ServiceAccount used to run the Policy Server and
    assumes that users are using the recommended best practices of keeping the Policy Server's ServiceAccount
    least privileged. By default, the Kubewarden helm chart grants access to the following resources (cluster
    wide) only: Namespace, Pod, Deployment and Ingress. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.21.0.
    (CVE-2025-24784)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
216199	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2025:0429-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
420805	SCA: security update for github.com/kubewarden/kubewarden-controller (GHSA-756x-m4mj-q96c)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
420805	SCA: security update for github.com/kubewarden/kubewarden-controller (GHSA-756x-m4mj-q96c)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium

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