# CVE-2023-3027: The grc-policy-propagator allows security escalation within the cluster.

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-06-05 · Updated: 2025-01-08

## Affected

- n/a RHACM: version range not reported

## Description

The grc-policy-propagator allows security escalation within the cluster. The propagator allows policies which contain some dynamically obtained values (instead of the policy apply a static manifest on a managed cluster) of taking advantage of cluster scoped access in a created policy. This feature does not restrict properly to lookup content from the namespace where the policy was created.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211468#c0

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