Kubernetes RKE1 Cluster Vulnerability: Plaintext Secret Values Exposed During Reconciliation
CVE-2024-22032

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Suse
Status
Rancher
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 October 2024

What is CVE-2024-22032?

A vulnerability has been identified in which an RKE1 cluster keeps constantly reconciling when secrets encryption configuration is enabled. When reconciling, the Kube API secret values are written in plaintext on the AppliedSpec. Cluster owners, Cluster members, and Project members (for projects within the cluster), all have RBAC permissions to view the cluster object from the apiserver.

Affected Version(s)

rancher 2.7.0 < 2.7.14

rancher 2.8.0 < 2.8.5

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2024-22032
https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GH...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

.