CVE-2023-30622 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-30622: Clusternet has potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation

Vendor Clusternet
Product clusternet
Weakness CWE-269
Published April 24, 2023
Last update February 4, 2025

CVSS base score

6.6/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Clusternet is a general-purpose system for controlling Kubernetes clusters across different environments. An issue in clusternet prior to version 0.15.2 can be leveraged to lead to a cluster-level privilege escalation. The clusternet has a deployment called `cluster-hub` inside the `clusternet-system` Kubernetes namespace, which runs on worker nodes randomly. The deployment has a service account called `clusternet-hub`, which has a cluster role called `clusternet:hub` via cluster role binding. The `clusternet:hub` cluster role has `"*" verbs of "*.*"` resources. Thus, if a malicious user can access the worker node which runs the clusternet, they can leverage the service account to do malicious actions to critical system resources. For example, the malicious user can leverage the service account to get ALL secrets in the entire cluster, resulting in cluster-level privilege escalation. Version 0.15.2 contains a fix for this issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 24, 2023 CVE published
February 4, 2025 Record updated