CVE-2024-39690 (GCVE-0-2024-39690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-20 14:33 – Updated: 2025-08-14 13:32
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Summary
Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. In Capsule v0.7.0 and earlier, the tenant-owner can patch any arbitrary namespace that has not been taken over by a tenant (i.e., namespaces without the ownerReference field), thereby gaining control of that namespace. Version 0.7.1 contains a patch.
Severity ?
8.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
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projectcapsule capsule Affected: <= 0.7.0
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