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high 7.5

CVE-2024-9779 json

Open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens

published 2024-12-17 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jhh6-6fhp-q2xp , GO-2024-3343 , EUVD-2024-3597

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user has access to the worker nodes which contain the cluster-manager or klusterlet deployments. The cluster-manager deployment uses a service account with the same name "cluster-manager" which is bound to a ClusterRole also named "cluster-manager", which includes the permission to create Pod resources. If this deployment runs a pod on an attacker-controlled node, the attacker can obtain the cluster-manager's token and steal any service account token by creating and mounting the target service account to control the whole cluster.

Patch / fix

  • go open-cluster-management.io/ocm 0.13.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20250108T191942-150000.1.26.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241220T214820-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14608-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-9779 updated cvss 7.5

open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 open-cluster-management
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
22 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go open-cluster-management.io/ocm
<0.13.0
0.13.0

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
  • CWE-501 Trust Boundary Violation

References

Sources

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