Cloud-credential-operator: cco mint-mode credentialsrequest manifests grant account-wide iam access beyond cluster scope on aws
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | affected | — |
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| Redhat | Openshift Container Platform |
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Vendor Workaround
Migrate from CCO Mint mode to STS mode (AWS Security Token Service), which eliminates long-lived IAM users and uses short-lived role-scoped OIDC tokens. Alternatively, switch to CCO Manual mode or Passthrough mode. If mode migration is not immediately feasible, manually restrict the IAM policies on CCO-provisioned IAM users by adding tag-based conditions scoping destructive actions to resources tagged with kubernetes.io/cluster/<infraName>=owned. For S3 actions, restrict Resource to the specific registry bucket ARN rather than "*". Enterprise defense-in-depth: deploy AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) to deny destructive actions from non-approved principals, and apply IAM Permission Boundaries to CCO-created users.
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.328% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:5 |
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| First Time appeared |
Redhat openshift Container Platform
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| Vendors & Products |
Redhat openshift Container Platform
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| Description | A flaw was found in the OpenShift Cloud Credential Operator Mint-mode IAM policies for AWS. Operator credentials are provisioned with account-wide scope for destructive actions rather than being restricted to cluster-owned resources, enabling cross-scope impact after credential compromise. | |
| Title | Cloud-credential-operator: cco mint-mode credentialsrequest manifests grant account-wide iam access beyond cluster scope on aws | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat openshift |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-250 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 | |
| Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat openshift |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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