Red Hat OpenShift Controller Manager insecure inherited permissions

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Red Hat OpenShift. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Controller Manager. Performing a manipulation results in insecure inherited permissions. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-45496. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Red Hat OpenShift (affected version not known). This affects some unknown functionality of the component Controller Manager. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insecure inherited permissions vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-277. A product defines a set of insecure permissions that are inherited by objects that are created by the program. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in OpenShift. This issue occurs due to the misuse of elevated privileges in the OpenShift Container Platform's build process. During the build initialization step, the git-clone container is run with a privileged security context, allowing unrestricted access to the node. An attacker with developer-level access can provide a crafted .gitconfig file containing commands executed during the cloning process, leading to arbitrary command execution on the worker node. An attacker running code in a privileged container could escalate their permissions on the node running the container.

The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-45496 since 08/30/2024. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/20/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

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

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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