# CVE-2024-7079: Openshift-console: unauthenticated installation of helm charts

> Unauthenticated attackers can bypass authentication to install Helm charts via the console API, potentially leading to code execution.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 20 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f9cg-c8c7-cmx3

## What is CVE-2024-7079?

CVE-2024-7079 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Redhat Openshift Container Platform, published on 24 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A flaw was found in the Openshift console. The /API/helm/verify endpoint is tasked to fetch and verify the installation of a Helm chart from a URI that is remote HTTP/HTTPS or local. Access to this endpoint is gated by the authHandlerWithUser() middleware function. Contrary to its name, this middleware function does not verify the validity of the user's credentials. As a result, unauthenticated users can access this endpoint.

Weakness: CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7079?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Redhat Openshift Container Platform.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-7079?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7079 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-7079 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7079 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openshift Container Platform

- [CVE-2020-27836](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-27836/): Missing authorization in cluster-ingress-operator (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-1085](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1085/): Misconfiguration in openshift-ansible (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2026-54099](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-54099/): Privilege escalation in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-1784](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-1784/): Ose-cluster-ingress-operator: remote code execution through haproxy configuration injection (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-20182](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20182/): Privilege escalation in openshift (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-7079 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-7079 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Redhat Openshift Container Platform, published on 24 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7079 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Redhat Openshift Container Platform. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7079/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7079/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7079
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7079
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-7079

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7079/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.