CVE-2024-9779
Open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Dec 17, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 25, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 10, 2024
Description
A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user has access to the worker nodes which contain the cluster-manager or klusterlet deployments. The cluster-manager deployment uses a service account with the same name "cluster-manager" which is bound to a ClusterRole also named "cluster-manager", which includes the permission to create Pod resources. If this deployment runs a pod on an attacker-controlled node, the attacker can obtain the cluster-manager's token and steal any service account token by creating and mounting the target service account to control the whole cluster.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N | redhat |
Weaknesses
- CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
open-cluster-management-io |
|
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Red Hat |
References
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