{"id":"CVE-2022-36055","aliases":["BIT-helm-2022-36055","GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh","GO-2022-0962"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2022-36055","summary":"Denial of service in Helm","details":"Fuzz testing, by Ada Logics and sponsored by the CNCF, identified input to functions in the `_strvals_` package that can cause an out of memory panic. Out of memory panics cannot be recovered from. Applications that use functions from the `_strvals_` package in the Helm SDK can have a Denial of Service attack when they use this package and it panics.\n\n### Impact\n\nThe `_strvals_` package contains a parser that turns strings into Go structures. For example, the Helm client has command line flags like `--set`, `--set-string`, and others that enable the user to pass in strings that are merged into the values. The `_strvals_` package converts these strings into structures Go can work with. Some string inputs can cause array data structures to be created causing an out of memory panic.\n\nApplications that use the `_strvals_` package in the Helm SDK to parse user supplied input can suffer a Denial of Service when that input causes a panic that cannot be recovered from.\n\nThe Helm Client will panic with input to `--set`, `--set-string`, and other value setting flags that causes an out of memory panic. Helm is not a long running service so the panic will not affect future uses of the Helm client.\n\n### Patches\n\nThis issue has been resolved in 3.9.4. \n\n### Workarounds\n\nSDK users can validate strings supplied by users won't create large arrays causing significant memory usage before passing them to the `_strvals_` functions.\n\n### For more information\n\nHelm's security policy is spelled out in detail in our [SECURITY](https://github.com/helm/community/blob/master/SECURITY.md) document.\n\n### Credits\n\nDisclosed by Ada Logics in a fuzzing audit sponsored by CNCF.","published":"2022-09-01T12:15:13Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:32.343869135Z","cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"epss":{"score":0.00879,"percentile":0.55926,"asOf":"2026-08-23"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"helm.sh/helm/v3","fixedVersion":"3.9.4"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/10466e3e179cc8cad4b0bb451108d3c442c69fbc","label":"helm/helm@10466e3"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.9.4"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/36xxx/CVE-2022-36055.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-7hfp-qfw3-5jxh"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36055"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/10466e3e179cc8cad4b0bb451108d3c442c69fbc"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/helm/helm"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0962"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T03:51:32.343869135Z"}}