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UBUNTU-CVE-2024-5651

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-08-12 13:38 – Updated: 2024-08-12 13:38 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-06-23

Details

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.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-5651	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5651	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5651	REPORT

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-12 05:46 – Updated: 2026-02-25 20:31

Title

Fence-agents-remediation: fence agent command line options leads to remote code execution

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-13 20:15 UTC

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5453	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5651	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2290540	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

2 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

Date Public

2024-08-12 05:28

Credits

This issue was discovered by Thibault Guittet (Red Hat).

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