Upstream information

CVE-2025-24784 at MITRE

Description

kubewarden-controller is a Kubernetes controller that allows you to dynamically register Kubewarden admission policies. The policy group feature, added to by the 1.17.0 release. By being namespaced, the AdmissionPolicyGroup has a well constrained impact on cluster resources. Hence, it's considered safe to allow non-admin users to create and manage these resources in the namespaces they own. Kubewarden policies can be allowed to query the Kubernetes API at evaluation time; these types of policies are called "context aware". Context aware policies can perform list and get operations against a Kubernetes cluster. The queries are done using the ServiceAccount of the Policy Server instance that hosts the policy. That means that access to the cluster is determined by the RBAC rules that apply to that ServiceAccount. The AdmissionPolicyGroup CRD allowed the deployment of context aware policies. This could allow an attacker to obtain information about resources that are out of their reach, by leveraging a higher access to the cluster granted to the ServiceAccount token used to run the policy. The impact of this vulnerability depends on the privileges that have been granted to the ServiceAccount used to run the Policy Server and assumes that users are using the recommended best practices of keeping the Policy Server's ServiceAccount least privileged. By default, the Kubewarden helm chart grants access to the following resources (cluster wide) only: Namespace, Pod, Deployment and Ingress. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.21.0.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 4.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact Low
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250207T224745-150000.1.32.1
Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-429
openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250207T224745-150000.1.32.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-429
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250204T220613-1.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-14732


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb Released
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
openSUSE Leap 15.5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jan 30 18:00:52 2025
CVE page last modified: Tue Feb 11 20:09:13 2025