CVE-2024-42480: RBAC Roles for `etcd` created by Kamaji are not disjunct
Summary Using an "open at the top" range definition in RBAC for etcd roles leads to some TCPs API servers being able to read, write and delete the data of other control planes. Details The problematic code is this: https://github.com/clastix/kamaji/blob/8cdc6191242f80d120c46b166e2102d27568225a/internal/datastore/etcd.go#L19-L24 The range created by this RBAC setup code looks like this: The range end \0 means…
Published Aug 12, 2024 · Updated Nov 18, 2024
Affected packages
github.com/clastix/kamaji
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Affected
- <= 1.0.0
- Fixed in
- No patched version yet
- Check
go list -m github.com/clastix/kamaji
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
Summary
_Using an "open at the top" range definition in RBAC for etcd roles leads to some TCPs API servers being able to read, write and delete the data of other control planes._
Details
The problematic code is this: https://github.com/clastix/kamaji/blob/8cdc6191242f80d120c46b166e2102d27568225a/internal/datastore/etcd.go#L19-L24
The range created by this RBAC setup code looks like this:
etcdctl role get example
Role example
KV Read:
[/example/, \0)
KV Write:
[/example/, \0)The range end \0 means "everything that comes after" in etcd, so potentially all the key prefixes of controlplanes with a name that comes after "example" when sorting lexically (e.g. example1, examplf, all the way to zzzzzzz if you will).
PoC
- Create two TCP in the same Namespace
- Scale Kamaji to zero to avoid reconciliations
- change the Kubernetes API Server
--etcd-prefixflag value to point to the other TCP datastore key - wait it for get it up and running
- use
kubectland will notice you're reading and writing data of another Tenant
Impact
Full control over other TCPs data, if you are able to obtain the name of other TCPs that use the same datastore and are able to obtain the user certificates used by your control plane (or you are able to configure the kube-apiserver Deployment, as shown in the PoC).
Credited to SimonKienzler, prometherion.
References
- https://github.com/clastix/kamaji/security/advisories/GHSA-6r4j-4rjc-8vw5
- https://github.com/clastix/kamaji/commit/1731e8c2ed5148b125ecfbdf091ee177bd44f3db
- https://github.com/clastix/kamaji/blob/8cdc6191242f80d120c46b166e2102d27568225a/internal/datastore/etcd.go#L19-L24
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42480
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6r4j-4rjc-8vw5
How this page is made: the data panel comes from the GitHub Advisory Database, CISA’s KEV catalog, the NVD and FIRST EPSS, and updates twice a day. No analysis has been written for this entry yet. Methodology
