RichardoC kube-audit-rest up to 1.0.15 k8s api information disclosure

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in RichardoC kube-audit-rest up to 1.0.15. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component k8s api. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-24884. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in RichardoC kube-audit-rest up to 1.0.15. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component k8s api. The manipulation 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 summary by CVE is:

kube-audit-rest is a simple logger of mutation/creation requests to the k8s api. If the "full-elastic-stack" example vector configuration was used for a real cluster, the previous values of kubernetes secrets would have been disclosed in the audit messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.16.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-24884 since 01/27/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216199 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2025:0429-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.0.16 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch db1aa5b867256b0a7bf206544c6981ab068b73dc is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216199). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• RichardoC

Name

• kube-audit-rest

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/RichardoC/kube-audit-rest/

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