Medium severity · published Mar 9, 2023
CVE-2023-27484
Unchecked fieldpath index in Composition's patches can lead to arbitrary memory allocation in crossplane
4.9
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
crossplane-runtime is a set of go libraries used to build Kubernetes controllers in Crossplane and its related stacks. In affected versions an already highly privileged user able to create or update Compositions can specify an arbitrarily high index in a patch's `ToFieldPath`, which could lead to excessive memory usage once such Composition is selected for a Composite resource. Compositions allow users to specify patches inserting elements into arrays at an arbitrary index. When a Composition is selected for a Composite Resource, patches are evaluated and if a specified index is greater than the current size of the target slice, Crossplane will grow that slice up to the specified index, which could lead to an excessive amount of memory usage and therefore the Pod being OOM-Killed. The index is already capped to the maximum value for a uint32 (4294967295) when parsed, but that is still an unnecessarily large value. This issue has been addressed in versions 1.11.2, 1.10.3, and 1.9.2. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade can restrict write privileges on Compositions to only admin users as a workaround.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 52% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CR
crossplane · crossplane
< 1.9.2; >= 1.10.0, < 1.10.3; >= 1.11.0, < 1.11.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27484
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-27484
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/security/advisories/GHSA-v829-x6hh-cqfq
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