What is CVE-2024-53349?

CVE-2024-53349 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linuxfoundation Kuadrant, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2025-03-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-53349?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Linuxfoundation Kuadrant

CVE-2024-53349

Insecure permissions in kuadrant v0.11.3 allow attackers to gain access to the service account's token, leading to escalation of privileges via the secretes component in the k8s cluster

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2025-03-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.4 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (29.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 29.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Linuxfoundation Kuadrant

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

github.com/Kuadrant/kuadrant-operator (Product)
www.cncf.io/projects/kuadrant/ (Product)
gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/2a34c8f95dac7d9d8d7df7732403f383 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-53349?: CVE-2024-53349 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linuxfoundation Kuadrant, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2025-03-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-53349?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.