9.1

CVE-2023-37917: Privilege Escalation in kubepi

Modified
AliasesGHSA-757p-vx43-fp9rGO-2023-1956
Published 21-07-2023Last modified 10-10-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-37917 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in 1panel-dev kubepi. EPSS estimates a 0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Prioritisepublic exploit

Public exploit (GitHub, Date unknown)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
9.1/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.74%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1github

Timeline

  1. 21-07-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

KubePi is an opensource kubernetes management panel. A normal user has permission to create/update users, they can become admin by editing the `isadmin` value in the request. As a result any user may take administrative control of KubePi. This issue has been addressed in version 1.6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.74%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

55%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.74% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Kubepi

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

1panel-dev1 product
Fit2cloud1 product
Github.com/KubeOperator1 product
  • kubepi< 1.6.5

3 vendors · 3 products

References

5 links