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SCA: security update for github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets (GHSA-qwgc-rr35-h4x9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 418362

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems. The
 external-secrets has a deployment called default-external-secrets-cert-controller, which is bound with a
 same-name ClusterRole. This ClusterRole has "get/list" verbs of secrets resources. It also has path/update
 verb of validatingwebhookconfigurations resources. This can be used to abuse the SA token of the
 deployment to retrieve or get ALL secrets in the whole cluster, capture and log all data from requests
 attempting to update Secrets, or make a webhook deny all Pod create and update requests. This
 vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.2. (CVE-2024-45041)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwgc-rr35-h4x9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418362

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45041

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45041