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High · 8.8 CVE-2022-23652 EUVD-2022-0936GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjmGO-2022-0329

Privilege escalation using hop-by-hop Connection header

Published Feb 22, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

capsule-proxy is a reverse proxy for Capsule Operator which provides multi-tenancy in Kubernetes. In versions prior to 0.2.1 an attacker with a proper authentication mechanism may use a malicious `Connection` header to start a privilege escalation attack towards the Kubernetes API Server. This vulnerability allows for an exploit of the `cluster-admin` Role bound to `capsule-proxy`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
clastix capsule-proxy < 0.2.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy < 0.2.1 0.2.1 GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm

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