FKIE_CVE-2024-43403

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-20 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:50
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The "edit" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/blob/master/helm/kanister-operator/templates/rbac.yaml#L49
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/security/advisories/GHSA-h27c-6xm3-mcqp
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T07:50:58.800",
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