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high 8.5

CVE-2024-39690 json

Capsule tenant owner with "patch namespace" permission can hijack system namespaces

published 2y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2024-2618 , GHSA-mq69-4j5w-3qwp , GO-2024-3077

cvss
8.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. In Capsule v0.7.0 and earlier, the tenant-owner can patch any arbitrary namespace that has not been taken over by a tenant (i.e., namespaces without the ownerReference field), thereby gaining control of that namespace. Version 0.7.1 contains a patch.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/projectcapsule/capsule 0.7.1

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2y ago

Exploit prediction

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/projectcapsule/capsule/security/advisories/GHSA-mq69-4j5w-3qwp referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/projectcapsule/capsule
<0.7.1
all versions
0.7.1

Affected products

  • projectcapsule capsule
  • clastix capsule

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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