CVE-2024-3177 LOW

CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

Vendor Kubernetes
Product Kubernetes
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published April 22, 2024
Last update September 10, 2024

CVSS base score

2.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers with the envFrom field populated. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets annotation are used together with containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers with the envFrom field populated.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 22, 2024 CVE published
September 10, 2024 Record updated