Authenticated administrator escalation via trusted isadmin field
Published Jul 21, 2023 · Updated Oct 10, 2024
Improper privilege management in KubePi 1.6.4 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to gain administrator access. The user update service trusted request-body IsAdmin and Type values and wrote them to the current user record instead of preserving stored values. Any ordinary account able to update its profile can set IsAdmin to true and obtain administrative control of managed clusters.
Summary
What happened
Improper privilege management in KubePi 1.6.4 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to gain administrator access. The user update service trusted request-body IsAdmin and Type values and wrote them to the current user record instead of preserving stored values. Any ordinary account able to update its profile can set IsAdmin to true and obtain administrative control of managed clusters.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-37917
- Published
- Jul 21, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 10, 2024
- Vendor
- KubeOperator
- Product
- KubePi
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 21, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 10, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.6.5
- Affected versionversion=< 1.6.5
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Public exploit references
- isadmin request-field privilege-escalation proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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