CVE-2024-5037
Openshift/telemeter: iss check during jwt authentication can be bypassed
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in OpenShift's Telemeter. If certain conditions are in place, an attacker can use a forged token to bypass the issue ("iss") check during JSON web token (JWT) authentication.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.81% · top 43% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
telemeter
- affected 4.16 – < 4.17
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
- unaffected v4.12.0-202408071159.p0.gc9592de.assembly.stream.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
- unaffected v4.13.0-202407081338.p0.g0634a6d.assembly.stream.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
- unaffected v4.14.0-202407021509.p0.g1f72681.assembly.stream.el8 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
- unaffected v4.15.0-202406200537.p0.g14489f7.assembly.stream.el9 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
- unaffected v4.16.0-202406200537.p0.gc1ecd10.assembly.stream.el9 – < *
Red Hat · Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
All versions: unaffected
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2
All versions: affected
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3
All versions: affected
References (9)
- RHSA-2024:4151 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:4156 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:4329 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:4484 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:5200 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5037 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2272339 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123540 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/openshift/telemeter/blob/a9417a6062c3a31ed78c06ea3a0613a52f2029b2/pkg/authorize/jwt/client_authorizer.go#L78 (opens in a new tab)x_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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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