CVE-2024-45041CWE-269

External Secrets Operator vulnerable to privilege escalation

High · published September 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00591 · 47.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2024-09-09T14:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 SEP 14:54Z
    External Secrets Operator vulnerable to privilege escalation
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