Medium

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

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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.

Announced 17 May 2024Group revision 1

Original source ↗

CVE-2024-5042

Primary source · Revision 1

Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.

Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2024-5042

RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.20

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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Related CVEs: CVE-2024-5042
Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event: #21317 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:43:02 GMT
Publisher date: Fri, 17 May 2024 13:12:00 GMT

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25 Oct 2026CVE-2024-5042 · Revision 1Source updated