CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-23652

Improper Authentication

Published: Feb 22, 2022 | Modified: Mar 01, 2022
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

capsule-proxy is a reverse proxy for Capsule Operator which provides multi-tenancy in Kubernetes. In versions prior to 0.2.1 an attacker with a proper authentication mechanism may use a malicious Connection header to start a privilege escalation attack towards the Kubernetes API Server. This vulnerability allows for an exploit of the cluster-admin Role bound to capsule-proxy. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Capsule-proxy Clastix * 0.2.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References