Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kyverno-cleanup-controller-compat-1.16 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-KYVERNOCLEANUPCONTROLLERCOMPAT116-15159219
- published31 Jan 2026
- disclosed27 Jan 2026
Introduced: 27 Jan 2026
CVE-2026-23881 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Minimos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Minimos:latest.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kyverno-cleanup-controller-compat-1.16 package and not the kyverno-cleanup-controller-compat-1.16 package as distributed by Minimos.
Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have unbounded memory consumption in Kyverno's policy engine that allows users with policy creation privileges to cause denial of service by crafting policies that exponentially amplify string data through context variables. Versions 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 contain a patch for the vulnerability.
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23881
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r2rj-wwm5-x6mq
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MINI-wmwr-392f-v3wp
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23881
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/7a651be3a8c78dcabfbf4178b8d89026bf3b850f
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/commit/f5617f60920568a301740485472bf704892175b7
- https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-r2rj-wwm5-x6mq