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CVE-2024-33398

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

There is a ClusterRole in piraeus-operator v2.5.0 and earlier which has been granted list secrets permission, which allows an attacker to impersonate the service account bound to this ClusterRole and use its high-risk privileges to list confidential information across the cluster.

Affected products

• Piraeus Operator: from 2.5.0* before 2.5.0 — fixed in 2.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Piraeus Operator 2.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/d0c11fae5ba4789946ae33175d0f9edb
• https://github.com/HouqiyuA/k8s-rbac-poc
• https://github.com/piraeusdatastore/piraeus-operator
• https://piraeus.io/
• https://gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/d0c11fae5ba4789946ae33175d0f9edb
• https://github.com/HouqiyuA/k8s-rbac-poc
• https://github.com/piraeusdatastore/piraeus-operator
• https://piraeus.io/

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