A flaw was found in fence agents that rely on SSH/Telnet. This vulnerability can allow a Remote Code Execution (RCE) primitive by supplying an arbitrary command to execute in the --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments. A low-privilege user, for example, a user with developer access, can create a specially crafted FenceAgentsRemediation for a fence agent supporting  --ssh-path/--telnet-path arguments to execute arbitrary commands on the operator's pod. This RCE leads to a privilege escalation, first as the service account running the operator, then to another service account with cluster-admin privileges.

Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Red Hat, Inc. CWE-94

Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5651 [No types assigned]

Red Hat, Inc. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2290540 [No types assigned]