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Helm Allows A Specially Crafted JSON Schema To Cause A Stack Overflow

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 9, 2025 in helm/helm • Updated Apr 10, 2025

Package

gomod helm.sh/helm/v3 (Go)

Affected versions

< 3.17.3

Patched versions

3.17.3

Description

A Helm contributor discovered that a specially crafted JSON Schema within a chart can lead to a stack overflow.

Impact

A JSON Schema file within a chart can be crafted with a deeply nested chain of references, leading to parser recursion that can exceed the stack size limit and trigger a stack overflow.

Patches

This issue has been resolved in Helm v3.17.3.

Workarounds

Ensure that the JSON Schema within any charts loaded by Helm does not have a large number of nested references. These JSON Schema files are larger than 10 MiB.

For more information

Helm's security policy is spelled out in detail in our SECURITY document.

Credits

Disclosed by Jakub Ciolek at AlphaSense.

References

@robertsirc robertsirc published to helm/helm Apr 9, 2025
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 9, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 10, 2025
Reviewed Apr 10, 2025
Last updated Apr 10, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2025-32387

GHSA ID

GHSA-5xqw-8hwv-wg92

Source code

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