GitHub_MVULNRICHMENT:CVE-2024-45041CVE-2024-45041 External Secrets Operator vulnerable to privilege escalation
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.0%
SSVC
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
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.
ADP Affected
[
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:external-secrets:external-secrets:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor": "external-secrets",
"product": "external-secrets",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "0.10.2",
"versionType": "custom"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unknown"
}
]Related
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.0%
SSVC
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial