CVE-2024-39690 (GCVE-0-2024-39690)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-20 14:33
Modified
2025-08-14 13:32
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
projectcapsule capsule Version: <= 0.7.0
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