A flaw was found in OpenShift. This issue occurs due to the misuse of elevated privileges in the OpenShift Container Platform's build process. During the build initialization step, the git-clone container is run with a privileged security context, allowing unrestricted access to the node. An attacker with developer-level access can provide a crafted .gitconfig file containing commands executed during the cloning process, leading to arbitrary command execution on the worker node. An attacker running code in a privileged container could escalate their permissions on the node running the container.

Affected Packages

Go github.com/openshift/openshift-controller-manager

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 0.0.0-alpha.0.0.20240911)

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-45496

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-j8gh-87rx-c7w9

Published

September 17, 2024 12:31 AM

Last Modified

January 9, 2025 9:31 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Primary Package

github.com/openshift/openshift-controller-manager

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: June 18, 2025 6:25 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.