Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting policy-controller package, versions <0.15.1-r8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-POLICYCONTROLLER-16022429
  • published13 Apr 2026
  • disclosed8 Apr 2026

Introduced: 8 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-32288  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi policy-controller to version 0.15.1-r8 or higher.

NVD Description

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

tar.Reader can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the "old GNU sparse map" format.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1