CVE-2026-118761

Kubeflow Pipelines: Pipeline archive upload allows decompression bomb to exhaust server memory

Published Oct 29, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Kubeflow Pipelines enables users to build and deploy portable, scalable machine learning workflows. Prior to 2.18.0, the API server decompressed uploaded pipeline archives without adequately bounding expanded data while locating or reading the pipeline file. A small ZIP or gzip-compressed tar archive can consume disproportionately large memory and exhaust API-server resources. Multipart pipeline and pipeline-version upload processing performs decompression before namespace authorization, so a reachable caller does not need a successful pipeline-create authorization decision. URL-import handlers authorize before fetching and decompressing a remote archive. The amount of expansion required to interrupt service depends on deployment resource limits and concurrent activity, and no specific archive is guaranteed to crash every deployment. This issue is fixed in version 2.18.0.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8fmv-6rg5-5924 Kubeflow Pipelines: Pipeline archive upload allows decompression bomb to exhaust server memory
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Kubeflow
Kubeflow pipelines
Vendors & Products Kubeflow
Kubeflow pipelines
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Description Kubeflow Pipelines enables users to build and deploy portable, scalable machine learning workflows. Prior to 2.18.0, the API server decompressed uploaded pipeline archives without adequately bounding expanded data while locating or reading the pipeline file. A small ZIP or gzip-compressed tar archive can consume disproportionately large memory and exhaust API-server resources. Multipart pipeline and pipeline-version upload processing performs decompression before namespace authorization, so a reachable caller does not need a successful pipeline-create authorization decision. URL-import handlers authorize before fetching and decompressing a remote archive. The amount of expansion required to interrupt service depends on deployment resource limits and concurrent activity, and no specific archive is guaranteed to crash every deployment. This issue is fixed in version 2.18.0.
Title Kubeflow Pipelines: Pipeline archive upload allows decompression bomb to exhaust server memory
Weaknesses CWE-409
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Oct 29, 2026, 8:18 PM
Reserved
Oct 28, 2026, 7:20 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Oct 29, 2026, 5:18 PM
Modified
Oct 30, 2026, 5:18 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Oct 29, 2026, 4:37 PM