CVE-2024-5042

medium

Published 2024-05-17 · Modified 2026-06-02

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CVSS v3

6.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.6

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/submariner-io/submariner-operator	`>=0.16.0-m0,<0.16.4`	`0.16.4`
Go	github.com/submariner-io/submariner-operator	`>=0.17.0-m0,<0.17.2`	`0.17.2`
Go	github.com/submariner-io/submariner-operator	`<0.15.4`	`0.15.4`
Go	github.com/submariner-io/submariner-operator	`>=0.18.0-m0,<0.18.0-rc0`	`0.18.0-rc0`
Go	github.com/submariner-io/submariner-operator	`>=0.17.0,<0.16.4`	`0.16.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-250

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.