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Description

Helm is a package manager for Charts for Kubernetes. Versions prior to 3.14.2 contain an uninitialized variable vulnerability when Helm parses index and plugin yaml files missing expected content. When either an `index.yaml` file or a plugins `plugin.yaml` file were missing all metadata a panic would occur in Helm. In the Helm SDK, this is found when using the `LoadIndexFile` or `DownloadIndexFile` functions in the `repo` package or the `LoadDir` function in the `plugin` package. For the Helm client this impacts functions around adding a repository and all Helm functions if a malicious plugin is added as Helm inspects all known plugins on each invocation. This issue has been resolved in Helm v3.14.2. If a malicious plugin has been added which is causing all Helm client commands to panic, the malicious plugin can be manually removed from the filesystem. If using Helm SDK versions prior to 3.14.2, calls to affected functions can use `recover` to catch the panic.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
helm helm < 3.14.2 —

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
Ubuntu 26.10 helm No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS helm No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 helm No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS helm No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS helm No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS helm No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS helm No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS helm No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 helm 3.16.3-150000.1.38.1 SUSE-RU-2024:4213-1
SLES 15 SP5 helm 3.13.3-150000.1.32.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1137-1, SUSE-RU-2024:4213-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.1 helm 3.17.2-slfo.1.1_1.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20278-1
SLE Micro 6.0 helm 3.17.2-1.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20196-1
SLE Micro 5.5 helm 3.16.3-150000.1.38.1 SUSE-RU-2024:4213-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed cmctl 1.14.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13778-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed helm 3.14.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13708-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed helm3 3.19.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15779-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed k9s 0.32.4-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13918-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 helm 3.16.3-150000.1.38.1 SUSE-RU-2024:4213-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 helm 3.13.3-150000.1.32.1 SUSE-SU-2024:1137-1, SUSE-RU-2024:4213-1
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 helm 3.16.3-150000.1.38.1 SUSE-RU-2024:4213-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 cert-manager 1.12.13-1 —
Azure Linux 3 helm 3.13.2-3 —
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) cert-manager 1.11.2-10 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling chartmuseum 0.16.1-r3 —
Wolfi rolling cilium-cli 0.15.23-r2 —
Wolfi rolling eksctl 0.172.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling flux-helm-controller +1 0.37.4-r2 —
Wolfi rolling flux-source-controller +1 1.2.4-r2 —
Wolfi rolling helm-operator +1 1.33.0-r3 —
Wolfi rolling helm-push 0.10.4-r3 —
Wolfi rolling k8sgpt 0.3.27-r2 —
Wolfi rolling k9s 0.31.9-r1 —
Wolfi rolling kots +2 1.107.7-r0 —
Wolfi rolling kubescape 3.0.3-r8 —
Wolfi rolling kubevela +3 1.10.0-r0 —
Wolfi rolling trivy 0.49.1-r2 —
Wolfi rolling up 0.24.1-r3 —
Wolfi rolling zarf 0.32.4-r0 —
Wolfi rolling zot 2.0.1-r5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go helm.sh/helm/v3 < 3.14.2 3.14.2 GHSA-r53h-jv2g-vpx6

Advisories 9

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