Red Hat OpenShift Console state entropy

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Red Hat OpenShift. This affects an unknown part of the component Console. The manipulation of the argument state leads to entropy. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-6508. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat OpenShift (affected version not known). This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Console. The manipulation of the argument state with an unknown input leads to a entropy vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-331. The product uses an algorithm or scheme that produces insufficient entropy, leaving patterns or clusters of values that are more likely to occur than others. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An insufficient entropy vulnerability was found in the Openshift Console. In the authorization code type and implicit grant type, the OAuth2 protocol is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack if the state parameter is used inefficiently. This flaw allows logging into the victim’s current application account using a third-party account without any restrictions.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-6508 since 07/04/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/22/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1600.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

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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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