{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-09-03T19:15:14Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "Bare Metal Operator: BMO can expose particularly named secrets from other namespaces via BMH CRD",
    "id" : "2309536",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309536"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.9",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-497",
  "details" : [ "The Bare Metal Operator (BMO) implements a Kubernetes API for managing bare metal hosts in Metal3. The `BareMetalHost` (BMH) CRD allows the `userData`, `metaData`, and `networkData` for the provisioned host to be specified as links to Kubernetes Secrets. There are fields for both the `Name` and `Namespace` of the Secret, meaning that versions of the baremetal-operator prior to 0.8.0, 0.6.2, and 0.5.2 will read a `Secret` from any namespace. A user with access to create or edit a `BareMetalHost` can thus exfiltrate a `Secret` from another namespace by using it as e.g. the `userData` for provisioning some host (note that this need not be a real host, it could be a VM somewhere).\nBMO will only read a key with the name `value` (or `userData`, `metaData`, or `networkData`), so that limits the exposure somewhat. `value` is probably a pretty common key though. Secrets used by _other_ `BareMetalHost`s in different namespaces are always vulnerable. It is probably relatively unusual for anyone other than cluster administrators to have RBAC access to create/edit a `BareMetalHost`. This vulnerability is only meaningful, if the cluster has users other than administrators and users' privileges are limited to their respective namespaces.\nThe patch prevents BMO from accepting links to Secrets from other namespaces as BMH input. Any BMH configuration is only read from the same namespace only. The problem is patched in BMO releases v0.7.0, v0.6.2 and v0.5.2 and users should upgrade to those versions. Prior upgrading, duplicate the BMC Secrets to the namespace where the corresponding BMH is. After upgrade, remove the old Secrets. As a workaround, an operator can configure BMO RBAC to be namespace scoped for Secrets, instead of cluster scoped, to prevent BMO from accessing Secrets from other namespaces.", "A flaw was found in the Bare Metal Operator (BMO). The BMO implements a Kubernetes API for managing bare metal hosts in Metal3. The BareMetalHost (BMH) CRD allows the userData, metaData, and networkData for the provisioned host to be specified as links to Kubernetes Secrets. There are fields for the Name and Namespace of the Secret, meaning that the baremetal-operator will read a Secret from any namespace. This flaw allows a user with access to create or edit a BareMetalHost can exfiltrate a Secret from another namespace by using it as the userData for provisioning some host, for example. Note that this need not be a real host; it could be a random VM." ],
  "statement" : "This issue is considered moderate rather than important because it requires specific conditions to be exploited. The vulnerability relies on an attacker already having the ability to create or modify a BareMetalHost resource, which typically requires elevated permissions. Furthermore, the flaw only allows exfiltration of Secrets by referencing them in another namespace, but does not directly expose or escalate privileges across the cluster. It also doesn't impact the integrity or availability of the system but is limited to confidentiality concerns within a specific scope. Proper RBAC policies can mitigate this risk, reducing its overall severity.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16",
    "release_date" : "2024-09-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:6824",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.16::el9",
    "package" : "openshift4/ose-baremetal-rhel9-operator:v4.16.0-202409121637.p0.gae55a70.assembly.stream.el9"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "openshift4/ose-image-customization-controller-rhel8",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43803\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43803\nhttps://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/commit/3af4882e9c5fadc1a7550f53daea21dccd271f74\nhttps://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/commit/bedae7b997d16f36e772806681569bb8eb4dadbb\nhttps://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/commit/c2b5a557641bc273367635124047d6c958aa15f7\nhttps://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/pull/1929\nhttps://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/pull/1930\nhttps://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/pull/1931\nhttps://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/security/advisories/GHSA-pqfh-xh7w-7h3p" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-43803",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "The Operator can configure BMO RBAC to be the namespace scoped for Secrets, instead of the cluster scoped to prevent BMO from accessing Secrets from other namespaces.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}