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High · 8.7 CVE-2024-56513 EUVD-2025-0035GHSA-mg7w-c9x2-xh7rGO-2025-3364

Karmada PULL Mode Cluster Privilege Escalation

Published Jan 3, 2025 · Updated Jan 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Karmada is a Kubernetes management system that allows users to run cloud-native applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters and clouds. Prior to version 1.12.0, the PULL mode clusters registered with the `karmadactl register` command have excessive privileges to access control plane resources. By abusing these permissions, an attacker able to authenticate as the karmada-agent to a karmada cluster would be able to obtain administrative privileges over the entire federation system including all registered member clusters. Since Karmada v1.12.0, command `karmadactl register` restricts the access permissions of pull mode member clusters to control plane resources. This way, an attacker able to authenticate as the karmada-agent cannot control other member clusters in Karmada. As a workaround, one may restrict the access permissions of pull mode member clusters to control plane resources according to Karmada Component Permissions Docs.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
karmada-io karmada < 1.12.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250108T191942-150000.1.26.1 SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250108T191942-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14624-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250108T191942-150000.1.26.1 SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/karmada-io/karmada < 1.12.0 1.12.0 GHSA-mg7w-c9x2-xh7r

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