CVE-2024-5651 (GCVE-0-2024-5651)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-12 05:46 – Updated: 2025-11-06 20:54
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Title
Fence-agents-remediation: fence agent command line options leads to remote code execution
Summary
A flaw was found in the Fence Agents Remediation operator. This vulnerability can allow a Remote Code Execution (RCE) primitive by supplying an arbitrary command to execute in the --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments. A low-privilege user, for example, a user with developer access, can create a specially crafted FenceAgentsRemediation for a fence agent supporting  --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments to execute arbitrary commands on the operator's pod. This RCE leads to a privilege escalation, first as the service account running the operator, then to another service account with cluster-admin privileges.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 0.4.0 , < 0.4.1-22 (semver)
    Red Hat Fence Agents Remediation 0.4 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: v0.4.1-22 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:workload_availability_far:0.4::el8
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    Red Hat Fence Agents Remediation 0.4 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: v0.4.1-22 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:workload_availability_far:0.4::el8
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Credits
This issue was discovered by Thibault Guittet (Red Hat).
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