CVE-2024-5037

Openshift/telemeter: iss check during jwt authentication can be bypassed

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 5, 2024 at 06:03 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:14 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorOpenShift Container PlatformOpenShift Distributed Tracing

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A flaw was found in OpenShift's Telemeter. If certain conditions are in place, an attacker can use a forged token to bypass the issue ("iss") check during JSON web token (JWT) authentication.

Affected

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

Vendor states this is fixed in v4.12.0-202408071159.p0.gc9592de.assembly.stream.el8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in v4.13.0-202407081338.p0.g0634a6d.assembly.stream.el8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in v4.14.0-202407021509.p0.g1f72681.assembly.stream.el8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in v4.15.0-202406200537.p0.g14489f7.assembly.stream.el9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in v4.16.0-202406200537.p0.gc1ecd10.assembly.stream.el9 (unaffected)

References (9)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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

CVSS

7.5HIGHredhat
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-290

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