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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:54

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Improper sanitization of plugin names in Helm

Details

In Helm before versions 2.16.11 and 3.3.2 plugin names are not sanitized properly. As a result, a malicious plugin author could use characters in a plugin name that would result in unexpected behavior, such as duplicating the name of another plugin or spoofing the output to helm --help. This issue has been patched in Helm 3.3.2. A possible workaround is to not install untrusted Helm plugins. Examine the name field in the plugin.yaml file for a plugin, looking for characters outside of the [a-zA-Z0-9._-] range.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "helm",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/helm"
      },
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.16.11"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "3.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.3.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
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    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-15186"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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      "cpe:2.3:a:helm:helm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Low"
  },
  "details": "In Helm before versions 2.16.11 and 3.3.2 plugin names are not sanitized properly. As a result, a malicious plugin author could use characters in a plugin name that would result in unexpected behavior, such as duplicating the name of another plugin or spoofing the output to `helm --help`. This issue has been patched in Helm 3.3.2. A possible workaround is to not install untrusted Helm plugins. Examine the `name` field in the `plugin.yaml` file for a plugin, looking for characters outside of the [a-zA-Z0-9._-] range.",
  "id": "BIT-helm-2020-15186",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:54:59.291Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/809e2d999e2c33e20e77f6bff30652d79c287542"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-m54r-vrmv-hw33"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15186"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Improper sanitization of plugin names in Helm"
}

CVE-2020-15186 (GCVE-0-2020-15186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-17 21:40 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:08

Title

Improper sanitization of plugin names in Helm

Summary

In Helm before versions 2.16.11 and 3.3.2 plugin names are not sanitized properly. As a result, a malicious plugin author could use characters in a plugin name that would result in unexpected behavior, such as duplicating the name of another plugin or spoofing the output to `helm --help`. This issue has been patched in Helm 3.3.2. A possible workaround is to not install untrusted Helm plugins. Examine the `name` field in the `plugin.yaml` file for a plugin, looking for characters outside of the [a-zA-Z0-9._-] range.

Severity

3.4 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-20 - {"CWE-20":"Improper Input Validation"}

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/809e2d999e2c3…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
helm	helm	Affected: >= 2.0.0, < 2.16.11 Affected: >= 3.0.0, < 3.3.2

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