7.5

CVE-2024-26147: Helm's Missing YAML Content Leads To Panic

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26147CGA-3wxg-6qw6-g2x7CGA-43x6-fqf5-7vcr
Published 21-02-2024Last modified 14-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-26147 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Use of Uninitialized Variable vulnerability in helm. EPSS estimates a 0.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.93%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 33
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15779-1SUSE-RU-2024:4213-1SUSE-SU-2024:1137-1SUSE-SU-2025:20196-1SUSE-SU-2025:20278-1CGA-2Q69-4VCM-HM2W

Timeline

  1. 21-02-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Helm is a package manager for Charts for Kubernetes. Versions prior to 3.14.2 contain an uninitialized variable vulnerability when Helm parses index and plugin yaml files missing expected content. When either an `index.yaml` file or a plugins `plugin.yaml` file were missing all metadata a panic would occur in Helm. In the Helm SDK, this is found when using the `LoadIndexFile` or `DownloadIndexFile` functions in the `repo` package or the `LoadDir` function in the `plugin` package. For the Helm client this impacts functions around adding a repository and all Helm functions if a malicious plugin is added as Helm inspects all known plugins on each invocation. This issue has been resolved in Helm v3.14.2. If a malicious plugin has been added which is causing all Helm client commands to panic, the malicious plugin can be manually removed from the filesystem. If using Helm SDK versions prior to 3.14.2, calls to affected functions can use `recover` to catch the panic.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 6 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.93%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

61%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Decrease -0.01 pp

From 0.93% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard27 products
  • chartmuseum< 0.16.1-r3
  • cilium-cli< 0.15.23-r2
  • eksctl< 0.172.0-r1
  • flux-helm-controller< 0.37.4-r2
  • flux-helm-controller-iamguarded-compat< 0.37.4-r2
Wolfi24 products
  • chartmuseum< 0.16.1-r3
  • cilium-cli< 0.15.23-r2
  • eksctl< 0.172.0-r1
  • flux-helm-controller< 0.37.4-r2
  • flux-helm-controller-iamguarded-compat< 0.37.4-r2
Opensuse3 products
  • cmctl&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.14.4-1.1
  • helm&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 3.14.2-1.1
  • k9s&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 0.32.4-2.1
Helm1 product
Helm.sh/helm1 product
  • v3< 3.14.2
Ubuntu1 product
  • helmAll versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 57 products

References

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