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CVE-2024-0793

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-0793 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in kube-controller-manager (KCM) that occurs when a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) configuration YAML is initially applied without a .spec.behavior.scaleUp block, causing KCM pods to repeatedly restart. This issue carries a CVSS score of 7.7 (HIGH), indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity that can lead to high availability impact. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
All Versions ImpactedCNA affecteddefault affected
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
Range not provided by sourceCNA affecteddefault affected
Https://Github.Com/KubernetesKube-Controller-Manager
>= 0, < 1.27CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (4)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: k8s.io/kubernetesFixed in: 1.27.0-alpha.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift-0:4.12.0-202403042037.p0.g9946c63.assembly.stream.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-controller-manager-operator:v4.13.0-202402011837.p0.gdac7113.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: microshift

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-h7wq-jj8r-qm7phigh

Kubernetes Nil pointer dereference in KCM after v1 HPA patch request

Nov 17, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-0793Important

kube-controller-manager: malformed HPA v1 manifest causes crash

Feb 7, 2024

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:0741
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:1267
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-0793
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / openshift/kubernetes/pull/1876