CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-23652
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-02-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
capsule-proxy is a reverse proxy for Capsule Operator which provides multi-tenancy in Kubernetes. In versions prior to 0.2.1 an attacker with a proper authentication mechanism may use a malicious `Connection` header to start a privilege escalation attack towards the Kubernetes API Server. This vulnerability allows for an exploit of the `cluster-admin` Role bound to `capsule-proxy`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Affected configurations
• clastix capsule-proxy (< 0.2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/commit/efe91f68ebf8a9e3d21491dc57da7b8a746415d8 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/issues/188 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/security/advisories/GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/commit/efe91f68ebf8a9e3d21491dc57da7b8a746415d8 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/issues/188 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/security/advisories/GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm Third Party Advisory