CVE-2024-45054

Potential Permission Leakage of Cluster Level in hwameistor

Description

Hwameistor is an HA local storage system for cloud-native stateful workloads. This ClusterRole has * verbs of * resources. If a malicious user can access the worker node which has hwameistor's deployment, he/she can abuse these excessive permissions to do whatever he/she likes to the whole cluster, resulting in a cluster-level privilege escalation. This issue has been patched in version 0.14.6. All users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should update and limit the ClusterRole using security-role.

Category

2.8
CVSS
Severity: Low
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 0.01%
Vendor Advisory github.com
Affected: hwameistor hwameistor
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/security/advisories/GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29 vendor advisory
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/issues/1457 issue tracking
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/issues/1460 issue tracking
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/commit/edf4cebed73cadd230bf97eab65c5311f2858450 patch
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/blob/main/helm/hwameistor/templates/clusterrole.yaml product

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2024-45054?
CVE-2024-45054 has been scored as a low severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2024-45054?
To fix CVE-2024-45054, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2024-45054 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2024-45054 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2024-45054?
CVE-2024-45054 affects hwameistor hwameistor.
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