# CVE-2024-6535: Skupper: potential authentication bypass to skupper console via forged cookies

- Also known as: GO-2024-2987, GHSA-W799-V85J-88PG
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.0.0-20240703184342-c26bce4079ff
- Published: 2024-07-17 · Updated: 2025-11-20

## Affected

- skupper: fixed in 0.0.0-20240703184342-c26bce4079ff
- service-interconnect/skupper-flow-collector-rhel9: version range not reported
- service-interconnect/skupper-service-controller-rhel9: version range not reported
- service-interconnect/skupper-flow-collector-rhel9: version range not reported
- service-interconnect/skupper-service-controller-rhel9: version range not reported
- skupper: version range not reported
- github.com/skupperproject/skupper (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20240703184342-c26bce4079ff

## Description

A flaw was found in Skupper. When Skupper is initialized with the console-enabled and with console-auth set to Openshift, it configures the openshift oauth-proxy with a static cookie-secret. In certain circumstances, this may allow an attacker to bypass authentication to the Skupper console via a specially-crafted cookie.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on skupper, service-interconnect/skupper-flow-collector-rhel9, service-interconnect/skupper-service-controller-rhel9 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (0.0.0-20240703184342-c26bce4079ff) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4865
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4871
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6535
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296024

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