CVE-2024-45041
External Secrets Operator vulnerable to privilege escalation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.3 High
- Published
- Sep 9, 2024
- Updated
- Sep 9, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 21, 2024
Description
External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems. The external-secrets has a deployment called default-external-secrets-cert-controller, which is bound with a same-name ClusterRole. This ClusterRole has "get/list" verbs of secrets resources. It also has path/update verb of validatingwebhookconfigurations resources. This can be used to abuse the SA token of the deployment to retrieve or get ALL secrets in the whole cluster, capture and log all data from requests attempting to update Secrets, or make a webhook deny all Pod create and update requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.2.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.3 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
external-secretsexternal-secrets |
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References
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