VDB-280048 · CVE-2024-9779 · Nessus 213966

Open Cluster Management cluster-manager permission

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Open Cluster Management. It has been declared as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component cluster-manager. Executing a manipulation can lead to permission. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-9779. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Open Cluster Management (version now known) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component cluster-manager. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-275. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user has access to the worker nodes which contain the cluster-manager or klusterlet deployments. The cluster-manager deployment uses a service account with the same name "cluster-manager" which is bound to a ClusterRole also named "cluster-manager", which includes the permission to create Pod resources. If this deployment runs a pod on an attacker-controlled node, the attacker can obtain the cluster-manager's token and steal any service account token by creating and mounting the target service account to control the whole cluster.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-9779 since 10/10/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

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). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Productinfo

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Open Cluster Management

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Permission
CWE: CWE-275 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 213966
Nessus Name: SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1)

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-9779 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-9779
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-280048

Entryinfo

Created: 10/11/2024 08:26
Updated: 02/26/2026 10:05
Changes: 10/11/2024 08:26 (49), 12/18/2024 05:31 (12), 01/13/2025 19:36 (2), 02/26/2026 10:05 (1)
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