CVE-2024-9779
Open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.44%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user has access to the worker nodes which contain the cluster-manager or klusterlet deployments. The cluster-manager deployment uses a service account with the same name "cluster-manager" which is bound to a ClusterRole also named "cluster-manager", which includes the permission to create Pod resources. If this deployment runs a pod on an attacker-controlled node, the attacker can obtain the cluster-manager's token and steal any service account token by creating and mounting the target service account to control the whole cluster.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 61% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
open-cluster-management-io
- affected 0.12.0
- unaffected 0.13.0
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
All versions: unaffected
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Goopen-cluster-management.io/ocmGHSA-jhh6-6fhp-q2xp (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9779 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2317916 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/ocm/pull/325 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/ocm/releases/tag/v0.13.0 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/registration-operator/issues/361 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-3597 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jhh6-6fhp-q2xp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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