Kyverno up to 1.19.0 Global Context Library globalContext.get information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Kyverno up to 1.19.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function globalContext.get of the component Global Context Library. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-100703. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Kyverno up to 1.19.0. Affected by this issue is the function globalContext.get of the component Global Context Library. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Kyverno 1.16.0 through 1.19.0 registers the globalcontext.Lib CEL library in its policy environment without confining it to the policy's namespace, unlike the sibling libraries (resource.Lib, http.Lib, configMap loader) which are handed the policy namespace. A tenant who can create a namespaced policy (e.g. NamespacedValidatingPolicy, and likewise the namespaced mutating, deleting, generating, and image-validating policy kinds) in their own namespace can call globalContext.get("<entry>", "") and receive the full cached contents of a cluster-scoped GlobalContextEntry, including data cached from namespaces the tenant has no RBAC permission to read. No admission validation rejects such calls. Fixed in 1.19.1.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-100703 since 09/26/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

Upgrading to version 1.19.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Kyverno

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19.0

Website

• Product: https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno/

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