5.3

CVE-2021-43979: openpolicyagent gatekeeper

CVSS: 5.3v3.1MediumModified
Published 17-11-2021Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-43979 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in openpolicyagent gatekeeper. EPSS estimates a 1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.05%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 17-11-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Styra Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper through 3.7.0 mishandles concurrency, sometimes resulting in incorrect access control. The data replication mechanism allows policies to access the Kubernetes cluster state. During data replication, OPA/Gatekeeper does not wait for the replication to finish before processing a request, which might cause inconsistencies between the replicated resources in OPA/Gatekeeper and the resources actually present in the cluster. Inconsistency can later be reflected in a policy bypass. NOTE: the vendor disagrees that this is a vulnerability, because Kubernetes states are only eventually consistent

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.05%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

64%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.05% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.05%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Openpolicyagent1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

2 links