CVE-2024-45496: Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.12

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in OpenShift. This issue occurs due to the misuse of elevated privileges in the OpenShift Container Platform's build process. During the build initialization step, the git-clone container is run with a privileged security context, allowing unrestricted access to the node. An attacker with developer-level access can provide a crafted .gitconfig file containing commands executed during the cloning process, leading to arbitrary command execution on the worker node. An attacker running code in a privileged container could escalate their permissions on the node running the container.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.12: before v4.12.0-202409131137.p1.g0b1971a.assembly.stream.el8 (fixed in v4.12.0-202409131137.p1.g0b1971a.assembly.stream.el8)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.13: before v4.13.0-202409130707.p1.gb75d499.assembly.stream.el8 (fixed in v4.13.0-202409130707.p1.gb75d499.assembly.stream.el8)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.14: before v4.14.0-202409130708.p1.g9020ea1.assembly.stream.el8 (fixed in v4.14.0-202409130708.p1.g9020ea1.assembly.stream.el8)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.15: before v4.15.0-202409131835.p1.gbe9d673.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.15.0-202409131835.p1.gbe9d673.assembly.stream.el9)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.16: before v4.16.0-202409130937.p1.g5dcfc99.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.16.0-202409130937.p1.g5dcfc99.assembly.stream.el9)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.17: before v4.17.0-202409182235.p0.g7682a61.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.17.0-202409182235.p0.g7682a61.assembly.stream.el9)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.18: before v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g088dcaf.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g088dcaf.assembly.stream.el9); before v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.gd4fb1b6.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.gd4fb1b6.assembly.stream.el9); before v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g11ced00.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g11ced00.assembly.stream.el9); before v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.gf648c78.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.gf648c78.assembly.stream.el9); before v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g24a6532.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.18.0-202501230001.p0.g24a6532.assembly.stream.el9); before v4.18.0-202502100301.p0.g2e139ed.assembly.stream.el9 (fixed in v4.18.0-202502100301.p0.g2e139ed.assembly.stream.el9); …

Published 2024-09-17. Last modified 2026-08-11.