GHSA-53c4-hhmh-vw5q · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — Helm vulnerable to denial of service through through repository index file
Helm is a tool for managing Charts, pre-configured Kubernetes resources. Versions prior to 3.10.3 are subject to NULL Pointer Dereference in the _repo_package. The _repo_ package contains a handler that processes the index file of a repository. For example, the Helm client adds references to chart repositories where charts are managed. The _repo_ package parses the index file of the repository and loads it into structures Go can work with. Some index files can cause array data structures to be created causing a memory violation. Applications that use the _repo_ package in the Helm SDK to parse an index file can suffer a Denial of Service when that input causes a panic that cannot be recovered from. The Helm Client will panic with an index file that causes a memory violation panic. Helm is not a long running service so the panic will not affect future uses of the Helm client. This issue has been patched in 3.10.3. SDK users can validate index files that are correctly formatted before passing them to the _repo_ functions.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-23525 is rated Low Risk (27.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2026-01-28 | 0.04% | 0.06% | +0.02% |
| 2 | 2025-11-21 | 0.27% | 0.04% | -0.23% |
| 3 | 2025-11-18 | — | 0.27% | — |
Full EPSS history (9 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 5.3 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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3.9 | 1.4 | [email protected] |
| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
GHSA-53c4-hhmh-vw5q · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — Helm vulnerable to denial of service through through repository index file
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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high | CVE-2022-23525: 1 source package rows (helm); 5 state rows across 3 repos (3.17-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 5. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-23525 |
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23525 |
suse
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low | CVE-2022-23525 severity low: SUSE including 253 source package names (2.16.12:helm-2.16.12-150100.3.14.1, 3.17.3-8.1:helm-3.10.3-150000.1.13.1, …), 281 product×package rows across 23 product lines (Container caasp/v4/helm-tiller, Container suse/helm, … (23 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Fixed 50. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23525/ |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/638ebffbc2e445156f3978f02fd83d9af1e56f5b | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-53c4-hhmh-vw5q | Third Party Advisory |