CVE-2024-36539 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Insecure permissions in contour v1.28.3 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtaining the service account's token.

Published: 2024-07-24

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 1.3% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:projectcontour:contour:1.28.3:*:*:*:*:kubernetes:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01263.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/c92f9ec979653dceeea947afd0b47a80

History

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:projectcontour:contour:1.28.3:::::kubernetes::

Subscriptions

Projectcontour Contour

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-07-24T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:37:05.278Z

Reserved: 2024-05-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-36539

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-25T15:07:05.871Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-24T17:15:10.767

Modified: 2026-06-17T07:36:55.447

Link: CVE-2024-36539

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-277
Insecure Inherited Permissions

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