CVE-2023-30617

Leverage the kruise-daemon pod to list all secrets in the entire cluster

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 3, 2024 at 03:29 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:55 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKruise

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Kruise provides automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes. Starting in version 0.8.0 and prior to versions 1.3.1, 1.4.1, and 1.5.2, an attacker who has gained root privilege of the node that kruise-daemon run can leverage the kruise-daemon pod to list all secrets in the entire cluster. After that, the attacker can leverage the "captured" secrets (e.g. the kruise-manager service account token) to gain extra privileges such as pod modification. Versions 1.3.1, 1.4.1, and 1.5.2 fix this issue. A workaround is available. For users that do not require imagepulljob functions, they can modify kruise-daemon-role to drop the cluster level secret get/list privilege.

Affected

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

v < 1.3.1v < 1.5.20.8.0 ≤ v < 1.3.11.4.0 ≤ v < 1.4.11.5.0 ≤ v < 1.5.2= 1.4.0
Affected range stops below 1.3.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.4.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.5.2, 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:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

6.5MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-250CWE-269

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