CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-0759

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Mar 25, 2022 | Modified: Apr 07, 2022
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.3 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in all versions of kubeclient up to (but not including) v4.9.3, the Ruby client for Kubernetes REST API, in the way it parsed kubeconfig files. When the kubeconfig file does not configure custom CA to verify certs, kubeclient ends up accepting any certificate (it wrongly returns VERIFY_NONE). Ruby applications that leverage kubeclient to parse kubeconfig files are susceptible to Man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM).

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kubeclient Redhat * 4.9.3 (excluding)
Logging subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift 5.4 RedHat openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel8:v1.14.5-3 *
OpenShift Logging 5.2 RedHat openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel8:v1.7.4-176 *
OpenShift Logging 5.3 RedHat openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel8:v1.7.4-178 *
Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 RedHat rubygem-kubeclient-0:4.10.1-1.el8sat *
RHOL-5.5-RHEL-8 RedHat openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel8:v1.14.6-29 *
Ruby-kubeclient Ubuntu bionic *
Ruby-kubeclient Ubuntu impish *
Ruby-kubeclient Ubuntu kinetic *
Ruby-kubeclient Ubuntu lunar *
Ruby-kubeclient Ubuntu mantic *
Ruby-kubeclient Ubuntu trusty *
Ruby-kubeclient Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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