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CVE-2024-45496: Openshift-controller-manager: elevated build pods can lead to node compromise in openshift

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 63.4% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: github.com/openshift/openshift-controller-manager (Go) 0.0.0-alpha.0.0.20240911.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to github.com/openshift/openshift-controller-manager (Go) 0.0.0-alpha.0.0.20240911 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

CriticalCVSS 9.9 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: Sep 16, 2024
Updated: Aug 11, 2026
EPSS: 1.0% · 63th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.9 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 1.0%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · redhat: 9.9; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

github.com/openshift/ openshift-controller-manager
- 4.12.0 and later · up to and including 4.18.0affected · semver
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
- v4.12.0-202409131137.p1.g0b1971a.assembly.stream.el8 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
- v4.13.0-202409130707.p1.gb75d499.assembly.stream.el8 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
- v4.14.0-202409130708.p1.g9020ea1.assembly.stream.el8 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
- v4.15.0-202409131835.p1.gbe9d673.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
- v4.16.0-202409130937.p1.g5dcfc99.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
- v4.17.0-202409182235.p0.g7682a61.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g088dcaf.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.gd4fb1b6.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g11ced00.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.gf648c78.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g24a6532.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202502100301.p0.g2e139ed.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g3193a75.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202502041302.p0.g1ad8f2e.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g7149f2d.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm
- v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g7149f2d.assembly.stream.el9 and laternot affected · rpm

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Go	github.com/openshift/openshift-controller-manager	from 0	—
Go	github.com/openshift/openshift-controller-manager	before 0.0.0-alpha.0.0.20240911	0.0.0-alpha.0.0.20240911

Same product

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CVE-2024-6508Openshift-console: oauth2 insufficient state parameter entropy
32Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-1139Apr 25, 2024 · Cluster-monitoring-operator: credentials leak
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-3154Apr 26, 2024 · Cri-o: arbitrary command injection via pod annotation
28Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-45497Dec 30, 2024 · Openshift-api: openshift-controller-manager/build: build process in openshift allows overwriting of node pull credentials
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Go:github.com/openshift/openshift-controller-manager	0.0.0-alpha.0.0.20240911	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Thibault Guittet (Red Hat)

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-1483 · Sep 17, 2024(RedHat OpenShift Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: low · the service can be disrupted

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: Low

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

nvd-secondary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

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References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3718

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