CVE-2024-5042 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A flaw was found in the Submariner project. Due to unnecessary role-based access control permissions, a privileged attacker can run a malicious container on a node that may allow them to steal service account tokens and further compromise other nodes and potentially the entire cluster.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00152.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Acm Openshift Data Foundation

No data.

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9
odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator:v4.16.0-19	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_data_foundation:4.16::el9	RHSA-2024:4591	2024-07-17T00:00:00Z

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4591
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5042
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280921
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rhx-qhxp-5jpw
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5042
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5042

History

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2024-05-17T13:12:00.551Z

Updated: 2025-08-30T17:41:17.925Z

Reserved: 2024-05-17T03:54:30.320Z

Link: CVE-2024-5042

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:03:10.599Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-17T14:15:21.123

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:46:50.500

Link: CVE-2024-5042

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-5042 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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