CVE-2024-45041

HIGH EPSS 43.9%
Published Sep 9, 20241y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
8.8 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Sep 9, 2024 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

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 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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
8.8
Exploitability
2.8
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
43.9% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 2

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management Authorization
CWE-732

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
external-secretsexternal_secrets_operator* <0.10.2

References 2

  • github.com https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/commit/428a452fd2ad45935312f2c2c0d40bc37ce6e67c
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/security/advisories/GHSA-qwgc-rr35-h4x9
    Vendor Advisory

Remediation

  • github.com https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/commit/428a452fd2ad45935312f2c2c0d40bc37ce6e67c
    Patch