Clusternet has potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
Clusternet is a general-purpose system for controlling Kubernetes clusters across different environments. An issue in clusternet prior to version 0.15.2 can be leveraged to lead to a cluster-level privilege escalation. The clusternet has a deployment called `cluster-hub` inside the `clusternet-system` Kubernetes namespace, which runs on worker nodes randomly. The deployment has a service account called `clusternet-hub`, which has a cluster role called `clusternet:hub` via cluster role binding. The `clusternet:hub` cluster role has `"*" verbs of "*.*"` resources. Thus, if a malicious user can access the worker node which runs the clusternet, they can leverage the service account to do malicious actions to critical system resources. For example, the malicious user can leverage the service account to get ALL secrets in the entire cluster, resulting in cluster-level privilege escalation. Version 0.15.2 contains a fix for this issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| clusternet | clusternet | before 0.15.2 | 0.15.2 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/clusternet/clusternet (Go) | before 0.15.2 | 0.15.2 | Patch available | GHSA-833c-xh79-p429 |
- clusternet Vendorclusternet Affected before 0.15.2 Fixed in 0.15.2 Patch available CNA
- github.com/clusternet/clusternet (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.15.2 Fixed in 0.15.2 Patch available GHSA-833c-xh79-p429
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:clusternet:clusternet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | up to 0.15.1 | Vulnerable | clusternet |
- cpe:2.3:a:clusternet:clusternet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 0.15.1 Vulnerable ·clusternet
Remediation
- Fix · CNA clusternet (clusternet) Fixed in 0.15.2
- Fix · GHSA-833c-xh79-p429 github.com/clusternet/clusternet (Go) Fixed in 0.15.2 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-30622
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-833c-xh79-p429
References
Sources
- CVE-2023-30622 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-30622 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-833c-xh79-p429 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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