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TI-2023-14438 Aliases CVE-2023-30622GHSA-833c-xh79-p429

Clusternet has potential risk which can be leveraged to make a cluster-level privilege escalation

Priority LOW 37CWE-269Published · Updated

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

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00193 9th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed clusternet (clusternet): 0.15.2github.com/clusternet/clusternet (Go): 0.15.2

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
clusternetclusternetbefore 0.15.20.15.2Patch availableCNA
—github.com/clusternet/clusternet (Go)before 0.15.20.15.2Patch availableGHSA-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

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:clusternet:clusternet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 0.15.1Vulnerableclusternet
  • 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

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-30622
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-833c-xh79-p429

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