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Telepresence Traffic Manager gRPC lacks authentication, exposing pod secrets

A Kubernetes development tool lets other pods steal passwords and keys.

Summary

The Telepresence Traffic Manager gRPC API accepts unauthenticated calls from the cluster network, so an attacker can take a victim pod's environment, including secrets, tokens and API keys. Versions before 2.31.0 are affected.

Affected when

  • Traffic Manager gRPC port 8081 reachable from the cluster network
  • Default cluster-wide deployment managing all namespaces

What to do

Update Telepresence to 2.31.0 or later.

Products and platforms

  • telepresence

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