CVE-2025-32386

Helm Allows A Specially Crafted Chart Archive To Cause Out Of Memory Termination

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Apr 9, 2025
Updated: Apr 10, 2025
Reserved: Apr 6, 2025

Description

Helm is a tool for managing Charts. A chart archive file can be crafted in a manner where it expands to be significantly larger uncompressed than compressed (e.g., >800x difference). When Helm loads this specially crafted chart, memory can be exhausted causing the application to terminate. This issue has been resolved in Helm v3.17.3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
helmhelm	< 3.17.3Affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.