GHSA-vjhc-cf4p-72q4
Fission: Cross-namespace Environment reference in Package allows build-time command execution and SA token exfiltration
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/fission/fission | < 1.24.0 | 1.24.0 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
Fission's `buildermgr` controller processed `Package` CRDs without verifying that `Package.spec.environment.namespace` matched `Package.metadata.namespace`.
### Details
An attacker with `packages.fission.io/create` in their own namespace could set `spec.environment.namespace` to any other tenant's namespace. The controller then used its high-privilege service account to fetch the Environment
cross-namespace and dispatch the build command into the **victim namespace's** builder pod.
The build command's stdout is written verbatim into `Package.status.buildlog`. By running malicious code through an npm `preinstall` lifecycle hook (or any equivalent build step), the attacker could read the victim namespace's
`fission-builder` Bearer token from inside that builder pod and surface it through the build log — then use the leaked token to read every Secret and ConfigMap in the victim namespace.
### Impact
Cross-tenant compromise: a package author in one namespace could execute code inside another tenant's builder pod and exfiltrate that namespace's `fission-builder` service-account token, giving namespace-wide secret and configmap read in
the victim namespace.
### Fix
Fixed in [#3379](https://github.com/fission/fission/pull/3379) and released in [v1.24.0](https://github.com/fission/fission/releases/tag/v1.24.0). Two checks in series:
- **Admission webhook** (`pkg/webhook/package.go::Validate`) rejects `Package.spec.environment.namespace != Package.metadata.namespace`. An empty namespace is still accepted; the controllers default it to the package's own namespace.
- **Controller belt-and-braces:** the same check is repeated in `pkg/buildermgr/pkgwatcher.go::build` and `pkg/buildermgr/common.go::buildPackage` before the cross-namespace `Environments(...).Get` call, so a stale Package CR or a
webhook-bypass cluster (`failurePolicy=Ignore`) cannot exploit the primitive either.
### Behavioural change
Packages that explicitly set `spec.environment.namespace` to a different namespace are now rejected at admission. Empty-string remains accepted (resolves to the package's own namespace, the same as the prior implicit behaviour).
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/fission/fission/security/advisories/GHSA-vjhc-cf4p-72q4
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49821
- https://github.com/fission/fission/pull/3379
- https://github.com/fission/fission/commit/e2b92663499f4dc3a1e2d38178f39c3c65e0134a
- https://github.com/fission/fission
- https://github.com/fission/fission/releases/tag/v1.24.0