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High · 8.8 CVE-2024-43403 EUVD-2024-2588GHSA-h27c-6xm3-mcqpGO-2024-3080

Kanister has a potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation

Published Aug 20, 2024 · Updated Aug 21, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The "edit" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kanisterio kanister <= 0.110.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/kanisterio/kanister all versions — GO-2024-3080

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