What is GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm?

GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Improper Authentication in Capsule Proxy

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm cover?

GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2022-23652. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm?

GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm?

GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm affects 1 product, including: go/github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy:\u003c 0.2.1.

GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjmHighCVSS 8.8

Improper Authentication in Capsule Proxy

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

February 23, 2022

Last Modified

February 3, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-23652 →

📋 Description

Impact

Using a malicious Connection header, an attacker with a proper authentication mechanism could start a privilege escalation towards the Kubernetes API Server, being able to exploit the cluster-admin Role bound to capsule-proxy.

Patches

Patch has been merged in the v0.2.1 release.

Workarounds

Upgrading is mandatory.

🎯 Affected products1

go/github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy:< 0.2.1

🔗 References (5)

https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/security/advisories/GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23652
https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/issues/188
https://github.com/clastix/capsule-proxy/commit/efe91f68ebf8a9e3d21491dc57da7b8a746415d8
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9cwv-cppx-mqjm