Medium 6.6Published May 17, 2024

CVE-2024-5042Submariner-operator: rbac permissions can allow for the spread of node compromises

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 12:10 UTC)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

A flaw was found in the Submariner project. Due to unnecessary role-based access control permissions, a privileged attacker can run a malicious container on a node that may allow them to steal service account tokens and further compromise other nodes and potentially the entire cluster.

CVSS: 6.6 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-250
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: redhat
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Oct 13, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 13, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Red Hat RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9 redhat:openshift_data_foundation	from v4.16.0-19 not affected	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 redhat:acm	2	CNA record

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4591vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6503vendor-advisory, x-refsource-redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5042vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280921issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rhx-qhxp-5jpw

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