CVE-2023-38495
Crossplane vulnerable to possible image tampering from missing image validation for Packages
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes without needing to write code. In versions prior to 1.11.5, 1.12.3, and 1.13.0, Crossplane's image backend does not validate the byte contents of Crossplane packages. As such, Crossplane does not detect if an attacker has tampered with a Package. The problem has been fixed in 1.11.5, 1.12.3 and 1.13.0. As a workaround, only use images from trusted sources and keep Package editing/creating privileges to administrators only.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.84% · top 42% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.4.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 1.11.5
- affected >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/crossplane/crossplaneGHSA-pj4x-2xr5-w87m (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/security/advisories/GHSA-pj4x-2xr5-w87m (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/blob/ac8b24fe739c5d942ea885157148497f196c3dd3/security/ADA-security-audit-23.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pj4x-2xr5-w87m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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