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Medium, CVSS 6.9

The Bare Metal Operator (BMO) can expose particularly named secrets from other namespaces via BMH CRD

CVE-2024-43803GHSA-pqfh-xh7w-7h3p

What to do

Vendor fix available. Upgrade each affected package to the fixed version on its release line (github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator 0.8.0, 0.6.2, 0.5.2), redeploy, then verify what is actually installed.

This page has no inventory attached, so it cannot say whether you are affected. A vendor fix is not proof that your deployment is fixed.

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Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS 4.0
6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N · score source
EPSS
  • CVE-2024-43803: 0.57% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 47.41 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

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Impact The Bare Metal Operator (BMO) implements a Kubernetes API for managing bare metal hosts in Metal3. The BareMetalHost (BMH) CRD allows the userData, metaData, and networkData for the provisioned host to be specified as links to Kubernetes Secrets. There are fields for both the Name and Namespace of the Secret, meaning that the baremetal-operator will read a Secret from any namespace. A user with access to create or edit a BareMetalHost can thus exfiltrate a Secret from another namespace by using it as e.g. the userData for provisioning some host (note that this need not be a real host, it could be a VM somewhere). Limiting factors BMO will only read a key with the name value (or userData, metaData, or networkData), so that limits the exposure somewhat. value is probably a pretty common key though. Secrets used by other BareMetalHosts in different namespaces are always vulnerable. It is probably relatively unusual for anyone other than cluster administrators to have RBAC access…

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  1. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from ghsa record GHSA-pqfh-xh7w-7h3p

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2024-43803

Advisory: The Bare Metal Operator (BMO) can expose particularly named secrets from other namespaces via BMH CRD
IDs: CVE-2024-43803, GHSA-pqfh-xh7w-7h3p
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2024-43803 (revision 1, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 15:05 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.9)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor fix available; fixed versions by package: github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator 0.8.0, 0.6.2, 0.5.2. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- Go github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator: affected >= 0.7.0-rc.0, < 0.8.0; >= 0.6.0, < 0.6.2; < 0.5.2; fixed in 0.5.2, 0.8.0, 0.6.2

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- Go github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator: check the installed version with your package manager.

## Supported action
Upgrade each affected component to a fixed version on its release line. For a transitive dependency, upgrade the parent package or add an override or constraint, then regenerate the lockfile. Redeploy every environment that ran an affected version.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pqfh-xh7w-7h3p (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-pqfh-xh7w-7h3p lists affected ranges: Go github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator >=0.7.0-rc.0 =0.6.0 =0 <0.5.2)

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