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Security Concern: Cross-Namespace Vulnerability in the Operator

High
roivaz published GHSA-gf93-xccm-5g6j Nov 4, 2025

Package

gomod internal/pkg/reconcilers/operator/discoveryservicecertificate/providers (Go)

Affected versions

<=0.13.3

Patched versions

None

Description

Summary

Cross-namespace Secret access vulnerability in DiscoveryServiceCertificate
allows users to bypass RBAC and access Secrets in unauthorized namespaces.

Severity

HIGH (CVSS 7.5-8.5)

Affected Versions

All versions prior to v0.13.4

Patched Versions

v0.13.4 and later

Impact

Users with permission to create DiscoveryServiceCertificate resources in one
namespace can indirectly read Secrets from other namespaces, completely
bypassing Kubernetes RBAC security boundaries.

Workarounds

Restrict DiscoveryServiceCertificate create permissions to cluster administrators
only until patched version is deployed.

References

Credit

Thanks to @debuggerchen for the responsible disclosure.

Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2025-64171

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits