CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2022-4039 — Redhat Single Sign-On security vulnerability
Critical
CVSS 9.8
A flaw was found in Red Hat Single Sign-On for OpenShift container images, which are configured with an unsecured management interface enabled. This flaw allows an attacker to use this interface to deploy malicious code and access and modify potentially sensitive information in the app server configuration.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2023-09-22
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
Affected products
- redhat / single_sign-on / 7.0
- redhat / openshift_container_platform / 4.9
- redhat / openshift_container_platform / 4.10
- redhat / openshift_container_platform_for_ibm_z / 4.9
- redhat / openshift_container_platform_for_ibm_z / 4.10
- redhat / openshift_container_platform_for_linuxone / 4.9
Matched remediation archetype
Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management
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Check exposure
- Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
- Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
- Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
- Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
- Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.
Authoritative sources
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