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CVE-2024-33522

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-33522 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Calico, Calico Enterprise, and Calico Cloud versions. An attacker with local access to a Kubernetes node can exploit an incorrectly configured SUID bit in the Calico CNI install binary to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
TigeraCalico Cloud
>= 0, < v19.3.0CNA affecteddefault unaffected
TigeraCalico Enterprise
>= 0, < v3.17.4, >= v3.18.0, < v3.18.2, >= v3.19.0-1.0, < v3.19.0-2.0CNA affecteddefault unaffected
TigeraCalico
>= 0, < v3.26.5, >= v3.27.0, < v3.27.3CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
12.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/projectcalico/calicoFixed in: 3.26.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/projectcalico/calicoFixed in: 3.27.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-6362-gv4m-53wwhigh

Calico privilege escalation vulnerability

Apr 30, 2024

References

github.com / projectcalico/calico/issues/7981
github.com / projectcalico/calico/pull/8447
github.com / projectcalico/calico/pull/8517
tigera.io / security-bulletins-tta-2024-001