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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
policieskubewarden
  • < 2.1.2Affected

References

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