CVE-2024-25133: OpenShift Hive RCE through AWS/Kubernetes client configuration leads to privilege escalation

December 31, 2024 (updated January 2, 2025)

A flaw was found in the Hive ClusterDeployments resource in OpenShift Dedicated. In certain conditions, this issue may allow a developer account on a Hive-enabled cluster to obtain cluster-admin privileges by executing arbitrary commands on the hive/hive-controllers pod.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260372
github.com/advisories/GHSA-wgqq-9qh8-wvqv
github.com/openshift/hive
github.com/openshift/hive/commit/5ba846620f9dbf49301dabb0d40cc980aabef4e0
github.com/openshift/hive/pull/2306
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25133

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