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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-63121 EUVD-2026-114566

Kubewarden trusted-repos-policy: uppercase registry host bypasses registry/image deny rules

Published Oct 30, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Kubewarden policies is a collection of WebAssembly policies for securing and governing Kubernetes clusters. For versions provisionally classified as affected before 2.1.2, `trusted-repos-policy` compares an image's `registry` hostname against `reject lists` and `allow lists` case-sensitively even though `registry` DNS names are case-insensitive. An image with an uppercase or mixed-case `registry` hostname can miss a rejection rule for the equivalent lowercase host, so the admission policy accepts a resource whose container runtime pulls the same prohibited image. Only reject-list configurations have this bypass: allow-list configurations fail closed by over-denying differently cased hostnames. The security consequences depend on the configured rejection policy and deployment environment. This issue is fixed in version 2.1.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kubewarden policies < 2.1.2 —

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