CVE-2022-23551

AAD Pod Identity obtaining token with backslash

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Dec 21, 2022
Updated
Apr 15, 2025
Reserved
Jan 19, 2022

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Description

aad-pod-identity assigns Azure Active Directory identities to Kubernetes applications and has now been deprecated as of 24 October 2022. The NMI component in AAD Pod Identity intercepts and validates token requests based on regex. In this case, a token request made with backslash in the request (example: `/metadata/identity\oauth2\token/`) would bypass the NMI validation and be sent to IMDS allowing a pod in the cluster to access identities that it shouldn't have access to. This issue has been fixed and has been included in AAD Pod Identity release version 1.8.13. If using the AKS pod-managed identities add-on, no action is required. The clusters should now be running the version 1.8.13 release.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1259 Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

ProductVersions
aad-pod-identityAzure
  • < 1.8.13Affected

References

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