Potential Permission Leakage of Cluster Level in hwameistor
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure, 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-200 and CWE-266.
Summary
Hwameistor is an HA local storage system for cloud-native stateful workloads. This ClusterRole has * verbs of * resources. If a malicious user can access the worker node which has hwameistor's deployment, he/she can abuse these excessive permissions to do whatever he/she likes to the whole cluster, resulting in a cluster-level privilege escalation. This issue has been patched in version 0.14.6. All users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should update and limit the ClusterRole using security-role.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hwameistor | hwameistor | before 0.14.6 | 0.14.6 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor (Go) | before 0.14.6 | 0.14.6 | Patch available | GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29 |
- hwameistor Vendorhwameistor Affected before 0.14.6 Fixed in 0.14.6 Patch available CNA
- github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.14.6 Fixed in 0.14.6 Patch available GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:hwameistor:hwameistor:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:* | before 0.14.6 | Vulnerable | hwameistor |
- cpe:2.3:a:hwameistor:hwameistor:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:* Versions before 0.14.6 Vulnerable ·hwameistor
Remediation
- Fix · CNA hwameistor (hwameistor) Fixed in 0.14.6
- Fix · GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29 github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor (Go) Fixed in 0.14.6 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-45054
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29
References
Advisory 2
Sources
- CVE-2024-45054 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-45054 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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