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CVE-2024-41820GO-2024-3039GHSA-3WFJ-3X8Q-HRPG

Cluster-level privilege escalation in kubean

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.18.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • kubean-io kubean

    fixed in 0.18.0

  • github.com/kubean-io/kubeanGo

    fixed in 0.18.0

References 3

GitHub · kubean-io/kubean