CVE-2024-6538 — console
MEDIUMCVE-2024-6538 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in github.com/openshift/console. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.
Openshift-console: openshift console: server-side request forgery
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-6538.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
github.com/openshift/consoleReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
A flaw was found in OpenShift Console. A Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack can happen if an attacker supplies all or part of a URL to the server to query. The server is considered to be in a privileged network position and can often reach exposed services that aren't readily available to clients due to network filtering. Leveraging such an attack vector, the attacker can have an impact on other services and potentially disclose information or have other nefarious effects on the system. The /api/dev-console/proxy/internet endpoint on the OpenShift Console allows authenticated users to have the console's pod perform arbitrary and fully controlled HTTP(s) requests. The full response to these requests is returned by the endpoint. While the name of this endpoint suggests the requests are only bound to the internet, no such checks are in place. An authenticated user can therefore ask the console to perform arbitrary HTTP requests from outside the cluster to a service inside the cluster.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/openshift/console | all versions | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/openshift/console, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
The records we use list no patched version of github.com/openshift/console for CVE-2024-6538. Check the maintainer's advisory, and where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range.
Mitigate without a patch
Restrict outbound requests from the affected component to an allowlist of hosts, block access to link-local and internal address ranges at the network layer, and require authentication on internal services so a forged request cannot reach them unauthenticated.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2024-6538 (CC BY 4.0)
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 | openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:v4.16.0-202506020836.p0.g94ae640.assembly.stream.el9 | RHSA-2025:8556 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 | openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:v4.17.0-202505280435.p0.gf9c412e.assembly.stream.el9 | RHSA-2025:8280 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 | openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:v4.18.0-202505150334.p0.g75bc164.assembly.stream.el9 | RHSA-2025:7863 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 | openshift4/ose-console:openshift-enterprise-console-container-v4.14.0-202510211320.p2.g0682746.assembly.stream.el8 | RHSA-2025:19058 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 | openshift4/ose-console:openshift-enterprise-console-container-v4.15.0-202508180724.p2.g69615d5.assembly.stream.el8 | RHSA-2025:14397 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-6538 in your dependencies?
Find it across Go, including transitive dependencies.