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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2022-23526 BIT-helm-2022-23526EUVD-2022-7524GHSA-67fx-wx78-jx33GO-2022-1166

Helm contains Denial of service through schema file

Published Dec 15, 2022 · Updated Apr 18, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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_chartutil_ package that can cause a segmentation violation. The _chartutil_ package contains a parser that loads a JSON Schema validation file. For example, the Helm client when rendering a chart will validate its values with the schema file. The _chartutil_ package parses the schema file and loads it into structures Go can work with. Some schema files can cause array data structures to be created causing a memory violation. Applications that use the _chartutil_ package in the Helm SDK to parse a schema file can suffer a Denial of Service when that input causes a panic that cannot be recovered from. 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 schema files that are correctly formatted before passing them to the _chartutil_ functions.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
helm helm < v3.10.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP4 helm 3.10.3-150000.1.13.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4606-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed helm 3.10.3-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12572-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed helm3 3.19.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15779-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 helm 3.10.3-150000.1.13.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4606-1
openSUSE Leap 15.3 helm 3.10.3-150000.1.13.1 SUSE-SU-2022:4606-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) helm 3.9.4-4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go helm.sh/helm/v3 < 3.10.3 3.10.3 GHSA-67fx-wx78-jx33

Advisories 5

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