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GHSA-cwrh-575j-8vr3

MediumCVSS 5.3 / 10
Published Jan 3, 2025·Last modified Jan 7, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

Both in karmadactl and karmada-operator, it is possible to supply a filesystem path, or an HTTP(s) URL to retrieve the custom resource definitions(CRDs) needed by karmada. The CRDs are downloaded as a gzipped tarfile and are vulnerable to a TarSlip vulnerability. An attacker able to supply a malicious CRD file into a karmada initialization could write arbitrary files in arbitrary paths of the filesystem.

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

From karmada version v1.12.0, when processing custom CRDs files, CRDs archive verification is utilized to enhance file system robustness.

Workarounds

Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?

When using karmadactl init to set up Karmada, if you need to set flag --crd to customize the CRD files required for karmada initialization, you can manually inspect the CRD files to check whether they contain sequences such as ../ that would alter file paths, to determine if they potentially include malicious files.

When using karmada-operator to set up Karmada, you must upgrade your karmada-operator to one of the fixed versions.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

  1. Enhancements made from the Karmada community: https://github.com/karmada-io/karmada/pull/5713, https://github.com/karmada-io/karmada/pull/5703
Risk Scores
Base Score
5.3

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights.

Threat Intelligence
1.3

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
0.72%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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