Authenticated privilege escalation via SCC admission bypass
Published Sep 24, 2023 · Updated Aug 2, 2024
Authentication bypass in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 through 4.14 allows remote authenticated users to gain a privileged pod. The SCC admission path revalidates an ephemeral-container update without restricting evaluation to the pod's previously selected SCC, allowing a crafted patch to pass under a more permissive policy. Exploitation requires update and patch rights on pods/ephemeralcontainers, plus access to create a pod or patch an existing pod; these rights are not granted by default.
Summary
What happened
Authentication bypass in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 through 4.14 allows remote authenticated users to gain a privileged pod. The SCC admission path revalidates an ephemeral-container update without restricting evaluation to the pod's previously selected SCC, allowing a crafted patch to pass under a more permissive policy. Exploitation requires update and patch rights on pods/ephemeralcontainers, plus access to create a pod or patch an existing pod; these rights are not granted by default.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-1260
- Published
- Sep 24, 2023
- Updated
- Aug 2, 2024
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11
- Classifications
- CWE-288, T1611
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 24, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 2, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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