CVE-2024-43403CWE-269

Kanister has a potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation

High · published August 20, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The "edit" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.

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
0.00515 · 43.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2024-08-20T21:16Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 AUG 21:16Z
    Kanister has a potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation
    cvelistv5