CVE-2024-5042
A flaw was found in the Submariner project. Due to unnecessary role-based access control permissions, a privileged attacker can run a malicious container on a node that may allow them to steal service account tokens and further compromise other nodes and potentially the entire cluster.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 6.6
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.50%
- CWE
- CWE-250
- Published
- 2024-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-08-22
Affected products
- Red Hat RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9
- Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2
- Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2
- Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2
- Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2
- Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2
- Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2
- Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2
Weakness type
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