[ CVE-2026-118761 · Published 29 Oct 2026 ]
Kubeflow Pipelines: Pipeline archive upload allows decompression bomb to exhaust server memory
[ Description ]Official 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.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines 0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860Fixed version · GitHub Advisories · go package github.com/kubeflow/pipelines: upgrade to 0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860 or later (affected < 0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860)
[ Packages ]Affected open-source packages
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines goAffected < 0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860 · fixed in 0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860 · GHSA-8fmv-6rg5-5924
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines goAffected = 1.7.0-alpha.3 · GHSA-8fmv-6rg5-5924
[ References ]References
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/commit/1121d9a081fdf9e2107c39abb2cd8947727c6953
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/commit/ba9ae72cc860e3afbea232185e4132fc2896cac5
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/14171
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/14186
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/releases/tag/2.18.0
- github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/security/advisories/GHSA-8fmv-6rg5-5924