Denial of Service

📋 Recommended Actions ⚠️ Action Required Immediate upgrade is highly recommended to address CVE-2024-24791 and benefit from the latest security patches in underlying dependencies. 📝 Summary cert-manager v1.18.6 delivers critical security enhancements, primarily addressing the CVE-2024-24791 vulnerability found in the Go standard library’s HTTP/2 implementation. This high-severity fix mitigates a potential denial-of-service risk, making an immediate upgrade essential for operational security. Beyond the Go toolchain bump to 1.24.13, this release also incorporates refreshed distroless base images (Debian 12). These updates bring the latest security patches from the Debian ecosystem, ensuring a more robust and secure runtime environment for your cert-manager deployments. No new features or breaking changes are introduced; this is a focused stability and security release. Operations engineers should prioritize this update to safeguard their Kubernetes clusters and maintain certificate issuance integrity. Review the release notes for full details. ...

📋 Recommended Actions ⚠️ Action Required Immediate review recommended for all users. Upgrade promptly to benefit from critical security hardening, fix potential denial-of-service vectors, and enhance certificate issuance reliability. 📝 Summary cert-manager v1.19.3 delivers crucial security enhancements and improved issuance robustness. This release directly addresses GHSA-gx3x-vq4p-mhhv, preventing a potential panic in the ACME DNS solver that could lead to denial-of-service. This high-severity fix solidifies the reliability of your ACME challenges. We’ve also introduced a vital new check: certificate issuance will now fail if the public key in the signed certificate doesn’t match the original Certificate Signing Request (CSR). This prevents infinite re-issuance loops with misconfigured external issuers, ensuring cryptographic integrity. Furthermore, the HTTP-01 solver gained more robust handling of IPv6 address literals, improving compliance and reliability for diverse network configurations. Essential tooling updates, including Go 1.25.6 and Kind 0.31.0, round out this focused release. Upgrade to boost the security and stability of your certificate management. ...