vpa 5.1.0 Helm chart

Name: vpa Helm chart 5.1.0: images and vulnerabilities
Creator: StackRadar
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

fairwinds-stable

Scored 17 Sept 2026

A Helm chart for Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler

Version 5.1.0 todayapp version 1.7.1 33Artifact Hub

vpa 5.1.0 deploys 4 container images: registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-admission-controller, registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-recommender, registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-updater and registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen. Across them, 144 findings — 0 critical, 2 high — 1 on CISA KEV. The highest contribution is GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3 in golang.org/x/net v0.7.0, fixed in 0.17.0. Chart.yaml declares kubeVersion >= 1.28.0-0; rendered for Kubernetes 1.28.0.

Radar Score

1,233026136

144 findings over 4 of 4 images measured

KEV confirmed exploited

Radar Score is the sum of every finding’s contribution; the colour is the worst finding’s band.

Container images

4 images

Image	Tag	Vulnerabilities	Radar Score
registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-admission-controller	1.7.1	00011	76
registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-recommender	1.7.1	00011	76
registry.k8s.io/autoscaling/vpa-updater	1.7.1	00011	76
registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen×2	v20230312-helm-chart-4.5.2-28-g66a760794	026103	1,005

Rendered with the chart’s default values for linux/amd64. Optional subcharts, images set by operator flags and images inside CRD payloads are not seen and are counted as unmeasured.

Medium findings

6 distinct across the version’s images

Medium: findings whose contribution to the Radar Score is 15–39. Show every band

Severity	Advisory	Package	Fixed in
Medium	GO-2024-2687	stdlib@go1.20.1	1.21.9
Medium	GHSA-hp87-p4gw-j4gq	gopkg.in/yaml.v3@v3.0.0	3.0.1
Medium	GHSA-4374-p667-p6c8	golang.org/x/net@v0.7.0	0.17.0
Medium	GHSA-8r3f-844c-mc37	google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.26.0	1.33.0
Medium	GHSA-4f99-4q7p-p3gh	github.com/sirupsen/logrus@v1.8.1	1.8.3
Medium	GHSA-6v2p-p543-phr9	golang.org/x/oauth2@v0.0.0-20200107190931-bf48bf16ab8d	0.27.0

Indexed versions

Version	Published	App version	Vulnerabilities	Radar Score
5.1.0latest	today	1.7.1	026136	1,233
5.0.1	15 days ago	1.7.1	026136	1,233

The latest version and the previous major, as selected nightly from the repository’s index.

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