CVE-2024-12401
A flaw was found in the cert-manager package. This flaw allows an attacker who can modify PEM data that the cert-manager reads, for example, in a Secret resource, to use large amounts of CPU in the cert-manager controller pod to effectively create a denial-of-service (DoS) vector for the cert-manager in the cluster.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 4.4 Medium
- Status
- Deferred - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2024-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-26
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- Cert Manager (Redhat)
- Connectivity Link (Redhat)
- Cryostat (Redhat)
- Multicluster Engine (Redhat)
- Openshift (Redhat)
- Openshift Data Foundation (Redhat)
- Openshift Gitops (Redhat)
- Serverless (Redhat)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-12401
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327929
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7400
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7401
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7402
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/pull/7403
- https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/security/advisories/GHSA-r4pg-vg54-wxx4
- https://go.dev/issue/50116
