CVE-2024-5651: Red Hat Fence Agents Remediation 0.4 For Rhel 8

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the Fence Agents Remediation operator. This vulnerability can allow a Remote Code Execution (RCE) primitive by supplying an arbitrary command to execute in the --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments. A low-privilege user, for example, a user with developer access, can create a specially crafted FenceAgentsRemediation for a fence agent supporting  --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments to execute arbitrary commands on the operator's pod. This RCE leads to a privilege escalation, first as the service account running the operator, then to another service account with cluster-admin privileges.

Affected products

• Red Hat Fence Agents Remediation 0.4 For Rhel 8: before v0.4.1-22 (fixed in v0.4.1-22)

Published 2024-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.