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Vulnerability record · public intelligence
CVE-2021-43832
CRITICAL

Improper Access Control in spinnaker

Published Jan 4, 2022 · Updated Oct 23, 2026

Severity · CVSSCRITICAL · 10.0
Known exploitationNot listed
EPSS / likelihood2.57%
QFinch risk score20 / 100

Original summary

Normalized public record · Updated Oct 23, 2026

Improper Access Control in spinnaker

Publisher and source text is retained separately from QFinch interpretation.

QFinch assessment

Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform. Spinnaker has improper permissions allowing pipeline creation & execution. This lets an arbitrary user with access to the gate endpoint to create a pipeline and execute it without authentication. If users haven't setup Role-based access control (RBAC) with-in spinnaker, this enables remote execution and access to deploy almost any resources on any account. Patches are available on the latest releases of the supported branches and users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible. Users unable to upgrade should enable RBAC on ALL accounts and applications. This mitigates the ability of a pipeline to affect any accounts. Block application access unless permission are enabled. Users should make sure ALL application creation is restricted via appropriate wildcards.

Evidence: public source records

Affected products

Affected scope reported by the available public evidence
Affected package, product or rangeFix status
Consult the referenced vendor advisory for affected versions.Consult source advisory

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Remediation

Apply the vendor-supported fixed release or mitigation, then verify the affected component is no longer reachable.

  1. Confirm the affected product and reachable code path exist in your environment.
  2. Apply the vendor-supported patch or mitigation from the primary advisory.
  3. Rescan the exact deployed revision and retain verification evidence.
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Evidence coverage

CVENVDEPSS
SSVC priority
MEDIUM
Confidence
20%
Aliases
None reported

Scores appear only when corresponding evidence exists. Missing data is never interpreted as zero risk.

Sources and record history

  1. Security advisory ↗

Record history

Published Jan 4, 2022 · Last refreshed Oct 23, 2026