CVE-2023-22645

kubewarden: Excessive permissions for kubewarden-controller-manager-cluster-role

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: April 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:35 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKubewarden Controller

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE kubewarden allows attackers to read arbitrary secrets if they get access to the ServiceAccount kubewarden-controller This issue affects: SUSE kubewarden kubewarden-controller versions prior to 1.6.0.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.6.0kubewarden-controller ≤ v < 1.6.0kubewarden-controller
Affected range stops below 1.6.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (1)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.8HIGHCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269

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