Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting helm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-HELM-9844418
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed18 Sept 2020

Introduced: 18 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-15186  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 helm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream helm package and not the helm package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Helm before versions 2.16.11 and 3.3.2 plugin names are not sanitized properly. As a result, a malicious plugin author could use characters in a plugin name that would result in unexpected behavior, such as duplicating the name of another plugin or spoofing the output to helm --help. This issue has been patched in Helm 3.3.2. A possible workaround is to not install untrusted Helm plugins. Examine the name field in the plugin.yaml file for a plugin, looking for characters outside of the [a-zA-Z0-9._-] range.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1