SCA: security update for github.com/kyverno/kyverno (GHSA-cvq5-hhx3-f99p)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 446806

Description

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

- Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. The patch for
CVE-2026-22039 fixed cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno's `apiCall` context by validating the
`URLPath` field. However, the ConfigMap context loader has the identical vulnerability — the
`configMap.namespace` field accepts any namespace with zero validation, allowing a namespace admin to read
ConfigMaps from any namespace using Kyverno's privileged service account. This is a complete RBAC bypass
in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters. An updated fix is available in version 1.17.2. (CVE-2026-41068)

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 446806

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/31/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.25

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41068

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41068

cwe: CWE-863

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