Red Hat Openshift Hive access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Red Hat Openshift. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Hive. Performing a manipulation results in Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-25133. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Red Hat Openshift (affected version unknown). This affects an unknown functionality of the component Hive. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in the Hive ClusterDeployments resource in OpenShift Dedicated. In certain conditions, this issue may allow a developer account on a Hive-enabled cluster to obtain cluster-admin privileges by executing arbitrary commands on the hive/hive-controllers pod.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-25133 since 02/05/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/06/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213966 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (213966). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Red Hat

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• Openshift

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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