CVE-2024-43403

Kanister has a potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation

Published Aug 20, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The "edit" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-2588 Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The "edit" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-h27c-6xm3-mcqp Withdrawn Advisory: Kanister vulnerable to cluster-level privilege escalation
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Kanisterio
Kanisterio kanister
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:kanisterio:kanister:0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Kanisterio
Kanisterio kanister
Metrics ssvc

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The "edit" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.
Title Kanister has a potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 21, 2024, 4:35 PM
Reserved
Aug 12, 2024, 6:02 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Aug 20, 2024, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:50 AM