CVE-2026-122315 Kyverno before 1.19.2 Image Verification Bypass via Attestation Type Panic

What is CVE-2026-122315?

CVE-2026-122315 is a high-severity vulnerability in kyverno, published on 5 Nov 2026.

Official description

Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains an unchecked type assertion in buildStatementMap that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the policy engine via crafted attestation statements. Attackers can push an OCI referrer manifest with a non-string type field to bypass image verification under failurePolicy Ignore or crash-loop the reports-controller.

Weakness: CWE-248

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-122315?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Kyverno.

How do I fix CVE-2026-122315?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-122315 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-122315 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-122315 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in kyverno

• CVE-2026-22039 Kyverno Cross-Namespace Privilege Escalation via Policy apiCall Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-4789 CVE-2026-4789 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-122303 Kyverno 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 Cross-Namespace Resource Overwrite via NamespacedMutatingPolicy Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-122304 Kyverno 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 Privilege Escalation via CleanupPolicy Context Loader Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-122310 Kyverno 1.19.1 before 1.19.2 Privilege Escalation via Policy apiCall urlPath Critical 9.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-24cc-9745-hxfc, GHSA-x7j9-3gfw-cfg6.