Kubernetes kube-apiserver up to 1.27.12/1.28.8/1.29.3 Mountable Secrets Policy envFrom information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Kubernetes kube-apiserver up to 1.27.12/1.28.8/1.29.3. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Mountable Secrets Policy. Such manipulation of the argument envFrom leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-3177. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Kubernetes kube-apiserver up to 1.27.12/1.28.8/1.29.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Mountable Secrets Policy. The manipulation of the argument envFrom with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality.

The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-3177 since 04/01/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 278691 (SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kubernetes1.23 (SUSE-SU-2025:02423-2)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.27.13, 1.28.9 or 1.29.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (278691). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Virtualization Software

Vendor

• Kubernetes

Name

• kube-apiserver

Version

• 1.27.0
• 1.27.1
• 1.27.2
• 1.27.3
• 1.27.4
• 1.27.5
• 1.27.6
• 1.27.7
• 1.27.8
• 1.27.9
• 1.27.10
• 1.27.11
• 1.27.12
• 1.28.0
• 1.28.1
• 1.28.2
• 1.28.3
• 1.28.4
• 1.28.5
• 1.28.6
• 1.28.7
• 1.28.8
• 1.29.0
• 1.29.1
• 1.29.2
• 1.29.3

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• open-source

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