CVE-2024-41820 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-41820: Cluster-level privilege escalation in kubean

Vendor Kubean-Io
Product kubean
Weakness CWE-732
Published August 5, 2024
Last update August 6, 2024

CVSS base score

6.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Kubean is a cluster lifecycle management toolchain based on kubespray and other cluster LCM engine. The ClusterRole has `*` verbs of `*` resources. If a malicious user can access the worker node which has kubean's deployment, he/she can abuse these excessive permissions to do whatever he/she likes to the whole cluster, resulting in a cluster-level privilege escalation. This issue has been addressed in release version 0.18.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 5, 2024 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated