CVE-2024-9779 (GCVE-0-2024-9779)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-17 22:59 – Updated: 2026-02-25 20:19
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Title
Open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-18 15:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1046 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 0.12.0
Unaffected: 0.13.0
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2     cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2
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Date Public
2023-11-30 00:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Nanzi Yang and Xingyu Liu for reporting this issue.
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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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