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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 7, 2022· Updated Apr 23, 2025

Flux2 Helm Controller denial of service

CVE-2022-36049

Description

Flux2 is a tool for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration, and Flux's helm-controller is a Kubernetes operator that allows one to declaratively manage Helm chart releases. Helm controller is tightly integrated with the Helm SDK. A vulnerability found in the Helm SDK that affects flux2 v0.0.17 until v0.32.0 and helm-controller v0.0.4 until v0.23.0 allows for specific data inputs to cause high memory consumption. In some platforms, this could cause the controller to panic and stop processing reconciliations. In a shared cluster multi-tenancy environment, a tenant could create a HelmRelease that makes the controller panic, denying all other tenants from their Helm releases being reconciled. Patches are available in flux2 v0.32.0 and helm-controller v0.23.0.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/fluxcd/helm-controllerGo
>= 0.0.4, < 0.23.00.23.0
github.com/fluxcd/flux2Go
>= 0.0.17, < 0.32.00.32.0

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