cve-2023-3955
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-31 20:36
Modified
2025-02-13 17:03
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes.
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/119595Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/JrX4bb7d83ETechnical Description
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231221-0002/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/119595Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/JrX4bb7d83ETechnical Description
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231221-0002/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes kubelet Version: v1.28.0
Version: v1.27.0   ≤ v1.27.4
Version: v1.26.0   ≤ v1.26.7
Version: v1.25.0   ≤ v1.25.12
Version: 0   ≤ v1.24.16
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