CVE-2024-41820: Kubean-Io Kubean

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kubean is a cluster lifecycle management toolchain based on kubespray and other cluster LCM engine. The ClusterRole has `*` verbs of `*` resources. If a malicious user can access the worker node which has kubean's deployment, he/she can abuse these excessive permissions to do whatever he/she likes to the whole cluster, resulting in a cluster-level privilege escalation. This issue has been addressed in release version 0.18.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Kubean-Io Kubean: before 0.18.0 (fixed in 0.18.0)

Published 2024-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.