Medium [CVE-2024-5042] rbac permissions can allow for the spread of node compromises
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-5042 affecting RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9, Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.
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Summary
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.
For the submariner operator in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, the submariner-security outlined potential vulnerabilities regarding RBAC permissions being too broad. Those permissions make it possible to create, patch or update statefulsets or replicasets resources.
This may allow new privileged containers escaping them and gaining root privileges on any worker nodes where those containers have been deployed within the cluster. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N).
Weakness: CWE-250. Affected Red Hat products: RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9; Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.2; Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2024:4591, RHSA-2026:6503.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 21 days ago·verify at source
- odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator:v4.16.0-19
- odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:1774540992
- odf4/cephcsi-rhel9-operator:1774540668
- odf4/mcg-core-rhel9:1774541259
- odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator:1774541345
- odf4/ocs-client-console-rhel9:1774541880
- odf4/ocs-client-rhel9-operator:1774541518
- odf4/ocs-metrics-exporter-rhel9:1774541420
- odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator:1774541448
- odf4/odf-cli-rhel9:1774541663
- odf4/odf-cloudnative-pg-rhel9-operator:1774541469
- odf4/odf-console-rhel9:1774542075
- odf4/odf-cosi-sidecar-rhel9:1774541617
- odf4/odf-csi-addons-rhel9-operator:1774541614
- odf4/odf-csi-addons-sidecar-rhel9:1774541633
- odf4/odf-external-snapshotter-rhel9-operator:1774541625
- odf4/odf-external-snapshotter-sidecar-rhel9:1774541625
- odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9:1774542179
- odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator:1774541779
- odf4/odf-must-gather-rhel9:1774541857
- odf4/odf-rhel9-operator:1774541919
- odf4/odr-rhel9-operator:1774541919
- odf4/rook-ceph-rhel9-operator:1774542101
- RHSA-2024:4591
- RHSA-2026:6503
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 21 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator:v4.16.0-19, odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:1774540992, odf4/cephcsi-rhel9-operator:1774540668, odf4/mcg-core-rhel9:1774541259, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator:1774541345, odf4/ocs-client-console-rhel9:1774541880. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 21 days ago·verify at source
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