CVE-2024-43403

Kanister has a potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Aug 20, 2024
Updated
Aug 21, 2024
Reserved
Aug 12, 2024

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Description

Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The "edit" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kanisterkanisterio
  • <= 0.110.0Affected

References

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