CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-45041

8.8 HIGH Published 2024-09-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-09-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/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
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-732

Description

External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems. The external-secrets has a deployment called default-external-secrets-cert-controller, which is bound with a same-name ClusterRole. This ClusterRole has "get/list" verbs of secrets resources. It also has path/update verb of validatingwebhookconfigurations resources. This can be used to abuse the SA token of the deployment to retrieve or get ALL secrets in the whole cluster, capture and log all data from requests attempting to update Secrets, or make a webhook deny all Pod create and update requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.2.

Affected configurations

• external-secrets external secrets operator (< 0.10.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References