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Fission StorageSvc /v1/archive endpoint exposes unauthenticated CRUD over all function archives

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 15, 2026 in fission/fission • Updated May 21, 2026

Package

gomod github.com/fission/fission (Go)

Affected versions

<= 1.22.0

Patched versions

1.23.0

Description

Summary

The Fission storagesvc component registers archive CRUD handlers (/v1/archive GET / POST / DELETE and /v1/archives list) directly on its HTTP router without performing any authentication or authorization. Any caller able to reach the storagesvc ClusterIP — including any other workload in the same Kubernetes cluster — could enumerate archive IDs, download archives belonging to other tenants, upload arbitrary archive content, and delete archives.

Affected component

  • pkg/storagesvc/storagesvc.go — handler registration and per-route handler logic at lines 72-95 (list), 167-199 (download/delete), and 263-270 (route wiring).

Impact

A workload elsewhere in the cluster (e.g. a compromised function pod, a noisy-neighbour tenant in a multi-tenant deployment, or any pod whose egress is not constrained by NetworkPolicy) could:

  1. Enumerate every function deployment archive in the cluster.
  2. Download the deployment archive of any function in any namespace, exposing the function's source code and any embedded secrets.
  3. Delete archives, causing the next function specialization or rebuild to fail.
  4. Upload arbitrary archives that subsequent function specializations would fetch and execute.

In multi-tenant Fission deployments this completely breaks the tenant boundary for function code.

Root cause

pkg/storagesvc/storagesvc.go mounts the handlers without an authentication middleware. Network-layer controls (NetworkPolicy) were the only line of defence before this fix, and the chart shipped no NetworkPolicy for storagesvc by default, so reachability was open.

Fix

Released in v1.23.0:

  • PR #3368 (commit 2455fc0c) wraps the storagesvc archive routes with the application-layer HMAC verifier from pkg/auth/hmac using the ServiceStoragesvc derived key. Callers (executor, fetcher, builder, CLI) sign their requests using a shared cluster master secret derived per-service via HKDF. Mismatched signatures are rejected with 401.
  • Defence in depth: PR #3365 added a NetworkPolicy for storagesvc so only the executor/fetcher/builder pods can reach it network-layer (independent of authentication).

Mitigation (until upgrade)

  1. Enable the Helm chart's per-service NetworkPolicy (set networkPolicy.enabled=true).
  2. Restrict storagesvc egress/ingress to the executor, builder, and fetcher pods only.
  3. Avoid running untrusted workloads in the cluster that hosts Fission.

References

@sanketsudake sanketsudake published to fission/fission May 15, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 21, 2026
Reviewed May 21, 2026
Last updated May 21, 2026

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-46612

GHSA ID

GHSA-chf8-4hv6-8pg6

Source code

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