Fission: Cross-namespace Package read via unvalidated PackageRef in Function admission webhook
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Summary
A Fission Function spec carries three reference types — Secret, ConfigMap, and Package. The first two were namespace-validated by the admission webhook; PackageRef.Namespace was not.
Details
A tenant with functions.fission.io/create in their own namespace could set spec.package.packageref.namespace to any other namespace. When the function is invoked, the fetcher sidecar reads the victim Package using the
fission-fetcher service account's namespace-wide get packages permission and writes its contents to /userfunc/deployarchive inside the attacker's pool pod, exposing the victim's source code and any embedded credentials.
The fission-fetcher SA holds get packages in every configured function namespace (granted by charts/fission-all/templates/_function-access-role.tpl), so the namespace check was the only barrier between the attacker and any
in-cluster Fission Package.
Impact
A function author in one namespace could read the deployment archive — and therefore the source code and embedded secrets — of any Package in any other namespace.
Fix
Fixed in #3389 and released in v1.24.0.
The admission webhook (pkg/webhook/function.go::Validate) rejects Function.spec.package.packageref.namespace != metadata.namespace. An empty namespace remains accepted (controllers default it to the function's namespace). This
shipped together with the EnvironmentRef cross-namespace check (GHSA-cvw6-gfvv-953q).
Behavioural change
Functions that explicitly set spec.package.packageref.namespace to a different namespace are now rejected at admission.
🎯 Affected products1
- go/github.com/fission/fission:<= 1.23.0
🔗 References (6)
- https://github.com/fission/fission/security/advisories/GHSA-3r8v-2xmj-5c39
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49823
- https://github.com/fission/fission/pull/3389
- https://github.com/fission/fission/commit/80e7ba55228e1ef426f51353e25d2682ec61de34
- https://github.com/fission/fission/releases/tag/v1.24.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3r8v-2xmj-5c39