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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-47633

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.

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6 Nov 2026, 00:51 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-47633

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Dec 2022, 00:00 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-47633",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2022-47633",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-47633",
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    "severity": "high",
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      "aliases": [
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        "CVE-2022-47633",
        "GHSA-m3cq-xcx9-3gvm",
        "GO-2022-1180"
      ],
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:45.583715371Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/compare/v1.8.4...v1.8.5",
        "https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/releases/tag/v1.8.5",
        "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"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/47xxx/CVE-2022-47633.json"
      }
    },
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 513634,
  "published_at": "2022-12-23T00:00:00+00:00"
}