CVE-2026-63121
Kubewarden trusted-repos-policy: uppercase registry host bypasses registry/image deny rules
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.3 Medium
- Published
- Oct 30, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2026
- Reserved
- Jul 15, 2026
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
policieskubewarden |
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References
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