CVE-2024-45041
Published: 09 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-45041 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in External-Secrets External Secrets Operator. Its CVSS base score is 8.3 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 38.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-2861
Vulnerability details
External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems. The external-secrets has a deployment called default-external-secrets-cert-controller, which is bound with a same-name ClusterRole. This ClusterRole has "get/list" verbs of secrets resources. It also has path/update verb…
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of validatingwebhookconfigurations resources. This can be used to abuse the SA token of the deployment to retrieve or get ALL secrets in the whole cluster, capture and log all data from requests attempting to update Secrets, or make a webhook deny all Pod create and update requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.2.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Policy addresses roles, responsibilities, and privilege management to prevent improper privilege assignments.
Implements core proper privilege management by restricting to only required rights.
Policy requires training on privilege management and least privilege, making it harder to exploit improper privilege management weaknesses.
Training covers proper privilege management practices, making incorrect privilege assignments less likely.
The control mandates review of privilege assignments to ensure they are appropriate and minimal.
Baseline configuration documents and controls privilege assignments, making improper privilege management harder to introduce or sustain.
Manages privileges for change control activities and provides oversight to prevent improper privilege use in configuration updates.
Reviewing changes for security impacts prevents introduction of improper privilege assignments or escalations.