Improper Privilege Management Affecting kyverno-notation-aws package, versions <1.1-r33


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

Social Trends
EPSS
0.52% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-KYVERNONOTATIONAWS-15399460
  • published5 Mar 2026
  • disclosed27 Jan 2026

Introduced: 27 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-22039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-918  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi kyverno-notation-aws to version 1.1-r33 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kyverno-notation-aws package and not the kyverno-notation-aws package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have a critical authorization boundary bypass in namespaced Kyverno Policy apiCall. The resolved urlPath is executed using the Kyverno admission controller ServiceAccount, with no enforcement that the request is limited to the policy’s namespace. As a result, any authenticated user with permission to create a namespaced Policy can cause Kyverno to perform Kubernetes API requests using Kyverno’s admission controller identity, targeting any API path allowed by that ServiceAccount’s RBAC. This breaks namespace isolation by enabling cross-namespace reads (for example, ConfigMaps and, where permitted, Secrets) and allows cluster-scoped or cross-namespace writes (for example, creating ClusterPolicies) by controlling the urlPath through context variable substitution. Versions 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 contain a patch for the vulnerability.