CVE-2024-5042: medium-severity vulnerability in submariner-operator
Submariner-operator: rbac permissions can allow for the spread of node compromises
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.6epss 0.5%
A flaw was found in the Submariner project. Due to unnecessary role-based access control permissions, a privileged attacker can run a malicious container on a node that may allow them to steal service account tokens and further compromise other nodes and potentially the entire cluster.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Affected products
submariner-operatorRed Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Red Hat · Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20Red Hat · RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9Related CVEs — submariner-operator
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