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CVE-2024-45054 Privilege escalation

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

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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.

CWE:
CVSS v2-
CVSS v3-
References
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/security/advisories/GHSA-mgwr-h7mv-fh29
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/issues/1457
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/issues/1460
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/commit/edf4cebed73cadd230bf97eab65c5311f2858450
https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor/blob/main/helm/hwameistor/templates/clusterrole.yaml
Affected Vendors

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Privilege escalation

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v26.5
AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v37.8
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
MITRE CWE Top 25

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Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1529 - System Shutdown/Reboot
T1499.004 - Endpoint Denial of Service (Application or System Exploitation)
T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution
T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

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Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

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