mediumCVSS 6.5Vulnerability

GHSA-c534-2w9c-x7fm

## Summary Kite versions 0.6.9 through 0.14.0 authorize Kubernetes proxy requests against the pod or service identified by the original route parameters. Encoded path traversal segments can cause the upstream URL to resolve to a different Kubernetes API endpoint after authorization. ## Impact An authenticated user with `get` permission on pods or services in one namespace can cause Kite to issue GET requests to Kubernetes API endpoints outside that namespace using Kite's service account. With Kite's default Helm RBAC configuration, this allows cluster-wide resource disclosure, including Secrets. The validated impact is confidentiality only; resource modification and denial of service were not demonstrated. Deployments using a restricted Kite service account are affected only up to the permissions granted to that service account. ## Technical details The authorization check is performed against the original namespace and kind route parameters. The proxy path is subsequently decoded and passed to `url.JoinPath`, which resolves `..` segments and can produce an upstream URL outside the authorized pod or service proxy prefix. Two input locations were affected: 1. Encoded traversal segments in the proxy catch-all path. 2. Encoded traversal and slash characters in the resource name. ## Reproduction 1. Create a user with a role granting only `pods:get` in namespace `default`. 2. Create any pod in `default` (e.g. `nginx`). 3. Send the following request (auth cookie required): ```bash curl --path-as-is --cookie "auth_token=<JWT>" \ 'http://<kite-host>/api/v1/_clusters/<cluster>/namespaces/default/pods/nginx/proxy/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/kube-system/secrets' ``` ## Patches Fixed in Kite 0.14.1. - https://github.com/kite-org/kite/releases/tag/v0.14.1 ## Workarounds Upgrade to 0.14.1 or later. If upgrading is temporarily impossible, reject encoded dot segments and encoded slashes at the reverse proxy and restrict Kite's Kubernetes service account permiss

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-c534-2w9c-x7fm
severity
medium
summary
Kite Kubernetes proxy path traversal allows authenticated users to bypass RBAC and read cluster-wide resources
cvss_score
6.5
cve_id
GHSA-c534-2w9c-x7fm
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-07-24T21:47:16Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c534-2w9c-x7fm
ghsa_updated
2026-07-24T21:47:19Z

Related Entities (4)

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]go/github.com/zxh326/kite

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]go/github.com/zxh326/kite

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Use of Non-Canonical URL Paths for Authorization Decisions

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