Trust Boundary Violation in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - CVE-2024-1725
Published: April 3, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU88100
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1725
CWE-ID: CWE-501
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the application.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the kubevirt-csi component of OpenShift Virtualization's Hosted Control Plane (HCP). A remote user can gain access to the root HCP worker node's volume by creating a custom Persistent Volume that matches the name of a worker node.
Affected software
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
How to mitigate CVE-2024-1725
Install updates from vendor's website.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - addressed in versions 4.15.6, 4.14.22