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CVE-2024-9779: Open-cluster-management-io/ocm: cluster-manager permissions may allow a worker node to obtain service account tokens

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-266

Description

A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM) when a user has access to the worker nodes which contain the cluster-manager or klusterlet deployments. The cluster-manager deployment uses a service account with the same name "cluster-manager" which is bound to a ClusterRole also named "cluster-manager", which includes the permission to create Pod resources. If this deployment runs a pod on an attacker-controlled node, the attacker can obtain the cluster-manager's token and steal any service account token by creating and mounting the target service account to control the whole cluster.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9779
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317916
• https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/ocm/pull/325
• https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/ocm/releases/tag/v0.13.0
• https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/registration-operator/issues/361

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