Vulnerabilites related to external-secrets - external_secrets_operator
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-07-24 17:15
Modified
2025-06-27 16:50
Severity ?
Summary
Insecure permissions in external-secrets v0.9.16 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtaining the service account's token.
References
| ▶ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cve@mitre.org | https://gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/a4834f3c8450f9d89e2bc4d5c4beef6a | Third Party Advisory | |
| af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | https://gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/a4834f3c8450f9d89e2bc4d5c4beef6a | Third Party Advisory |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| external-secrets | external_secrets_operator | 0.9.16 |
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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-09-09 15:15
Modified
2024-09-18 17:31
Severity ?
8.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| external-secrets | external_secrets_operator | * |
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CVE-2024-45041 (GCVE-0-2024-45041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-09 14:54
Modified
2024-09-09 17:11
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
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.
References
| ► | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| external-secrets | external-secrets |
Version: < 0.10.2 |
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CVE-2024-36540 (GCVE-0-2024-36540)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-24 00:00
Modified
2025-03-13 18:38
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Insecure permissions in external-secrets v0.9.16 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtaining the service account's token.
References
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