{"id":"CVE-2024-41820","aliases":["EUVD-2024-2482","GHSA-3wfj-3x8q-hrpg","GO-2024-3039"],"status":"published","title":"Cluster-level privilege escalation in kubean","description":"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. 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