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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-17 22:59 – Updated: 2025-11-20 19:59
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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
CWE
  • CWE-501 - Trust Boundary Violation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0.12.0
Unaffected: 0.13.0
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Nanzi Yang and Xingyu Liu for reporting this issue.
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