PT-2025-33104 · Helm+1 · Helm+1

Jake-Ciolek

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Published

2025-08-13

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Updated

2026-04-20

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CVE-2025-55199

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Helm versions prior to 3.18.5
Description: Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes Charts, is susceptible to a denial-of-service issue. A crafted JSON Schema file can cause Helm to exhaust available memory, leading to an out-of-memory (OOM) termination. This occurs when the $ref field in values.schema.json points to a device or problematic file, such as /dev/zero.
Recommendations: Helm versions prior to 3.18.5 should be updated to version 3.18.5 or later. Ensure all Helm charts loaded into Helm do not have any reference of $ref pointing to /dev/zero.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

AZL-66318
BDU:2025-11274
BIT-HELM-2025-55199
CLEANSTART-2026-BT39952
CLEANSTART-2026-FB05615
CLEANSTART-2026-LB23787
CLEANSTART-2026-MT27167
CLEANSTART-2026-OS42112
CLEANSTART-2026-PE63912
CVE-2025-55199
ECHO-48A3-DCB9-730D
GHSA-9H84-QMV7-982P
GO-2025-3887
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15469-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10318-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10319-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20655-1
SUSE-SU-2026:1483-1
SUSE-SU-2026:21434-1
SUSE-SU-2026:21461-1
SUSE-SU-2026:21628-1
SUSE-SU-2026:21635-1

Affected Products

Helm
Red Os