CVE-2023-2250

MCE: Potential Cluster Level Privilege Escalation In Open Cluster Management

Published Apr 24, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 6.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A flaw was found in the Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user have access to the worker nodes which has the cluster-manager-registration-controller or cluster-manager deployments. A malicious user can take advantage of this and bind the cluster-admin to any service account or using the service account to list all secrets for all kubernetes namespaces, leading into a cluster-level privilege escalation.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-33758 A flaw was found in the Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user have access to the worker nodes which has the cluster-manager-registration-controller or cluster-manager deployments. A malicious user can take advantage of this and bind the cluster-admin to any service account or using the service account to list all secrets for all kubernetes namespaces, leading into a cluster-level privilege escalation.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Feb 4, 2025, 4:30 PM
Reserved
Apr 24, 2023, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 24, 2023, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:52 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Apr 10, 2023, 12:00 AM