High
Security advisory
An image signature validation bypass vulnerability in Kyverno 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 allows a malicious image registry (or a man-in-the-middle attacker) to inject unsigned arbitrary container images into a protected Kubernetes cluster. This is fixed in 1.8.5. This has been fixed in 1.8.5 and mitigations are available for impacted releases.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-47633
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 00:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An image signature validation bypass vulnerability in Kyverno 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 allows a malicious image registry (or a man-in-the-middle attacker) to inject unsigned arbitrary container images into a protected Kubernetes cluster. This is fixed in 1.8.5. This has been fixed in 1.8.5 and mitigations are available for impacted releases.
osv:CVE-2022-47633
Complete source record
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"GO-2022-1180"
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:45.583715371Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://kyverno.io/docs/writing-policies/verify-images/",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/47xxx/CVE-2022-47633.json",
"https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/security/advisories/GHSA-m3cq-xcx9-3gvm",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-47633",
"https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/pull/5713"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2022-12-23T00:00:00+00:00"
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