CVE-2022-46167CWE-863

Capsule vulnerable to privilege escalation by ServiceAccount deployed in a Tenant Namespace

High · published December 2, 2022

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. Prior to version 0.1.3, a ServiceAccount deployed in a Tenant Namespace, when granted with `PATCH` capabilities on its own Namespace, is able to edit it and remove the Owner Reference, breaking the reconciliation of the Capsule Operator and removing all the enforcement like Pod Security annotations, Network Policies, Limit Range and Resource Quota items. An attacker could detach the Namespace from a Tenant that is forbidding starting privileged Pods using the Pod Security labels by removing the OwnerReference, removing the enforcement labels, and being able to start privileged containers that would be able to start a generic Kubernetes privilege escalation. Patches have been released for version 0.1.3. No known workarounds are available.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00943 · 60.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2022-12-02T18:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 DEC 18:22Z
    Capsule vulnerable to privilege escalation by ServiceAccount deployed in a Tenant Namespace
    cvelistv5