Medium severity · published Aug 28, 2024
CVE-2024-45054
Potential Permission Leakage of Cluster Level in hwameistor
6.7
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HW
hwameistor · hwameistor
< 0.14.6 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45054
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45054
Product
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/blob/main/helm/hwameistor/templates/clusterrole.yaml
Patch
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/commit/edf4cebed73cadd230bf97eab65c5311f2858450
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/issues/1457
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/issues/1460
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/security/advisories/GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29
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