Sealed Secret controller panic: index out of range

[gestgithub]

Which component:
The name (and version) of the affected component (controller or kubeseal)
sealed secrets controller (v0.23.1) pod crashloops in kubernetes cluster with following log message:

Log:

Defaulted container "sealed-secrets-controller" out of: sealed-secrets-controller, sealed-secrets-backup (init)
controller version: 0.23.1
2023/11/20 07:29:02 Starting sealed-secrets controller version: 0.23.1
Searching for existing private keys
----- sealed-secrets-key12345
----- sealed-secrets-key65478
----- sealed-secrets-key78945
----- sealed-secrets-key56489
----- sealed-secrets-key46584
----- sealed-secrets-key32187
----- sealed-secrets-key94684
----- sealed-secrets-key54684
HTTP server serving on :8080

Updating <redacted> type: 'Normal' reason: 'Unsealed' SealedSecret unsealed successfully
...
Updating <redacted> type: 'Normal' reason: 'Unsealed' SealedSecret unsealed successfully

panic: runtime error: index out of range [1] with length 1

goroutine 12 [running]:
github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller.writeKey({0x1ca32b0, 0xc0001a6000}, {0x1cb7b90, 0xc0004b6ea0}, 0x0?, {0xc0005e7ec8, 0x1, 0xc0004bed8e?}, {0xc00004acf0, 0xe}, ...)
	/home/runner/work/sealed-secrets/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller/keys.go:86 +0xcc5
github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller.(*KeyRegistry).generateKey(0xc00011a360, {0x1ca32b0, 0xc0001a6000}, 0x0?, {0x0?, 0xc0004befa0?}, {0x7ffcc5e22aef, 0x3f}, {0x0, 0x0})
	/home/runner/work/sealed-secrets/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller/keyregistry.go:56 +0x14f
github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller.initKeyRenewal.func1()
	/home/runner/work/sealed-secrets/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller/main.go:125 +0x4e
github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller.ScheduleJobWithTrigger.func1()
	/home/runner/work/sealed-secrets/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller/funcs.go:17 +0x37
created by github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller.ScheduleJobWithTrigger
	/home/runner/work/sealed-secrets/sealed-secrets/pkg/controller/funcs.go:14 +0x8e

Version of Kubernetes: v1.26.8

Any idea what this might be caused by?

[tewfik-ghariani]

Hi, I am not sure what could be the issue ( I am not one of the maintainers ^^ ) but at first I would suggest to upgrade to the latest version which is v0.24.4 and then try again

[gestgithub]

Nevermind another cluster has not synchronized a key which we needed, after manually moving it, a simple restart worked