CVE-2024-45496

Published: Sep 16, 2024

Modified: Feb 25, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.9

CRITICAL

Description

A flaw was found in OpenShift. This issue occurs due to the misuse of elevated privileges in the OpenShift Container Platform's build process. During the build initialization step, the git-clone container is run with a privileged security context, allowing unrestricted access to the node. An attacker with developer-level access can provide a crafted .gitconfig file containing commands executed during the cloning process, leading to arbitrary command execution on the worker node. An attacker running code in a privileged container could escalate their permissions on the node running the container.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	openshift-controller-manager	affected `4.12.0 - <= 4.18.0`
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12	unaffected `v4.12.0-202409131137.p1.g0b1971a.assembly.stream.el8 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13	unaffected `v4.13.0-202409130707.p1.gb75d499.assembly.stream.el8 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14	unaffected `v4.14.0-202409130708.p1.g9020ea1.assembly.stream.el8 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15	unaffected `v4.15.0-202409131835.p1.gbe9d673.assembly.stream.el9 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16	unaffected `v4.16.0-202409130937.p1.g5dcfc99.assembly.stream.el9 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17	unaffected `v4.17.0-202409182235.p0.g7682a61.assembly.stream.el9 - < *`