CVE-2017-1000056

CRITICAL

Kubernetes <1.5.4 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Kubernetes version 1.5.0-1.5.4 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation in the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mitigation, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43459

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0244
EPSS Percentile 82.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (6)
k8s.io/kubernetes 1.5.0 - 1.5.5Go
kubernetes/kubernetes 1.5.0
kubernetes/kubernetes 1.5.1
kubernetes/kubernetes 1.5.2
kubernetes/kubernetes 1.5.3
kubernetes/kubernetes 1.5.4
Published Jul 17, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026