GHSA-9224-ggvw-wh7v: github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder (CVE-2024-9486)

VM images built with Image Builder and Proxmox provider use default credentials in github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.022 · 82nd percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 17 Oct 2024, 15:37 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder	Go	<0.1.38	0.1.38

Identifiers

GHSA-9224-ggvw-wh7v · CVE-2024-9486 · GO-2024-3203

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-798

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Versions of github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder before 0.1.38 build VM images with the Proxmox provider that use default credentials. The source gives few details on how the default credentials are exposed or what access they grant. Upgrade to version 0.1.38. No workaround is listed.

Written 10 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (kubernetes)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.022, the 82nd percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 17 Oct 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.