Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - CVE-2024-45496

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - CVE-2024-45496

Published: September 19, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU97615
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45496
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions during the build initialization step. A remote user can provide a crafted .gitconfig file containing commands executed during the cloning process, leading to arbitrary command execution on the worker node.


How to mitigate CVE-2024-45496

Install updates from vendor's website.

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