Description
Aiven Operator allows you to provision and manage Aiven Services from your Kubernetes cluster. From 0.31.0 to before 0.37.0, a developer with create permission on ClickhouseUser CRDs in their own namespace can exfiltrate secrets from any other namespace — production database credentials, API keys, service tokens — with a single kubectl apply. The operator reads the victim's secret using its ClusterRole and writes the password into a new secret in the attacker's namespace. The operator acts as a confused deputy: its ServiceAccount has cluster-wide secret read/write (aiven-operator-role ClusterRole), and it trusts user-supplied namespace values in spec.connInfoSecretSource.namespace without validation. No admission webhook enforces this boundary — the ServiceUser webhook returns nil, and no ClickhouseUser webhook exists. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.37.0.
Problem types
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
CWE-441: Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')
Product status
References
github.com/...erator/security/advisories/GHSA-99j8-wv67-4c72
github.com/...ommit/032c9ba63257fdd2fddfb7f73f71830e371ff182
github.com/aiven/aiven-operator/releases/tag/v0.37.0