CVE-2024-43403

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductGithub.com/kanisterio/kanister
PublishedAug 20, 2024
First seenAug 20, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • github.com/kanisterio/kanister0.0.0-20240926084453-1f40f03d8432 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
github.com/kanisterio/kanisterGov < 0.0.0-20240926084453-1f40f03d8432, No range specified0.0.0-20240926084453-1f40f03d8432

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