{"cve":"CVE-2024-43403","nvd":{"published":"2024-08-20T22:15:04.703","modified":"2026-06-17T07:50:58.800","status":"Deferred","description":"Kanister is a data protection workflow management tool. The kanister has a deployment called default-kanister-operator, which is bound with a ClusterRole called edit via ClusterRoleBinding. The \"edit\" ClusterRole is one of Kubernetes default-created ClusterRole, and it has the create/patch/udpate verbs of daemonset resources, create verb of serviceaccount/token resources, and impersonate verb of serviceaccounts resources. A malicious user can leverage access the worker node which has this component to make a cluster-level privilege escalation.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":8.8},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"references":["https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/blob/master/helm/kanister-operator/templates/rbac.yaml#L49","https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/security/advisories/GHSA-h27c-6xm3-mcqp"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:54:16.205165117+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-43403","score":0.00515,"percentile":0.43913,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GO-2024-3080","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2024-3080","summary":"Kanister vulnerable to cluster-level privilege escalation in github.com/kanisterio/kanister","modified":"2026-03-03T04:55:44.259893Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/kanisterio/kanister","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/kanisterio/kanister","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}