This Week in Spring - January 31st, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm not going to spend too much time here in the preamble because a today's both my birthday and my late father's birthday and b I got the worst gift ever: COVID-19. Sigh. So, I'm going back to bed. Without further ado, let's...

Session Fixation

github.com/rancher/rancher is vulnerable to Session Fixation. The vulnerability exists because the library does not properly revoke the generated token after modification is made to the authentication provider, allowing an attacker to retain access to Rancher and the kubectl cluster...

Privilege Escalation

github.com/rancher/rancher is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. The vulnerability exists due to a flaw in the authorization logic, which allows an attacker to escalate permissions for any -promoted resource in any cluster through the project role template binding PRTB and -promoted roles...

Vulnerability of the Cluster component: The internal operations of the Oracle MySQL Cluster database management system, which allows attackers to gain full control over the application.

Vulnerability of the Cluster component: The internal operations of the Oracle MySQL Cluster database management system are related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to gain full control over the application...

hazelcast: Hazelcast connection caching

A flaw was found in Hazelcast and Hazelcast Jet. This flaw may allow an attacker unauthenticated access to manipulate data in the cluster...

SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : haproxy (SUSE-SU-2023:0153-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0153-1 advisory. - CVE-2023-0056: Fixed a server crash that could be triggered via a malformed HTTP/2 frame bsc1207181. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

GHSA-G25R-GVQ3-WRQ7 Authenticated user can gain unauthorized shell pod and kubectl access in the local cluster

Impact An issue was discovered in Rancher where an authorization logic flaw allows an authenticated user on any downstream cluster to 1 open a shell pod in the Rancher local cluster and 2 have limited kubectl access to it. The expected behavior is that a user does not have such access in the...

Authenticated user can gain unauthorized shell pod and kubectl access in the local cluster

Impact An issue was discovered in Rancher where an authorization logic flaw allows an authenticated user on any downstream cluster to 1 open a shell pod in the Rancher local cluster and 2 have limited kubectl access to it. The expected behavior is that a user does not have such access in the...

GHSA-7M72-MH5R-6J3R Privilege escalation in project role template binding (PRTB) and -promoted roles

Impact An issue was discovered in Rancher versions from 2.5.0 up to and including 2.5.16 and from 2.6.0 up to and including 2.6.9, where an authorization logic flaw allows privilege escalation via project role template binding PRTB and -promoted roles. This issue is not present in Rancher 2.7...

Privilege escalation in project role template binding (PRTB) and -promoted roles

Impact An issue was discovered in Rancher versions from 2.5.0 up to and including 2.5.16 and from 2.6.0 up to and including 2.6.9, where an authorization logic flaw allows privilege escalation via project role template binding PRTB and -promoted roles. This issue is not present in Rancher 2.7...

GHSA-8C69-R38J-RPFJ Rancher cattle-token is predictable

Impact An issue was discovered in Rancher versions up to and including 2.6.9 and 2.7.0, where the cattle-token secret, used by the cattle-cluster-agent, is predictable. Even after the token is regenerated, it will have the same value. This issue is not present in Rancher 2.5 releases. The...

PT-2023-12676 · Suse · Suse Rancher

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SUSE Rancher versions prior to 2.5.17 SUSE Rancher versions prior to 2.6.10 SUSE Rancher versions prior to 2.7.1 Description: A Missing Authorization vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allows an authenticated user to create an unauthorized shell p...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.25 security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.25 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whic...

Enhancing Kubernetes security with user namespaces

Learn how to improve cluster security with user namespaces, a new feature introduced in Kubernetes v1.25...

conntrack-tools bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for conntrack-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The conntrack-tools packages enable the user to set up a High...

FreeBSD : MySQL -- Multiple vulnerabilities (dc49f6dc-99d2-11ed-86e9-d4c9ef517024)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dc49f6dc-99d2-11ed-86e9-d4c9ef517024 advisory. - A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers versions prior to and...

CVE-2023-21860

Vulnerability in the MySQL Cluster product of Oracle MySQL component: Cluster: Internal Operations. Supported versions that are affected are 7.4.38 and prior, 7.5.28 and prior, 7.6.24 and prior and 8.0.31 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with access to...

CVE-2023-21860

Vulnerability in the MySQL Cluster product of Oracle MySQL component: Cluster: Internal Operations. Supported versions that are affected are 7.4.38 and prior, 7.5.28 and prior, 7.6.24 and prior and 8.0.31 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with access to...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the MySQL Cluster product of Oracle MySQL component: Cluster: Internal Operations. Supported versions that are affected are 7.4.38 and prior, 7.5.28 and prior, 7.6.24 and prior and 8.0.31 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with access to...

CVE-2023-21860

CVE-2023-21860 affects Oracle MySQL Cluster, specifically the Cluster: Internal Operations component. Connected sources confirm insufficient input validation in this component allows a high-privilege attacker with access to the physical network segment to compromise the MySQL Cluster, with exploi...