CVE-2020-35514

HIGH

OpenShift < 4.7.0 - Insecure Privilege Assignment via Kubeconfig File Access

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An insecure modification flaw in the /etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig file was found in OpenShift. This flaw allows an attacker with access to a running container which mounts /etc/kubernetes or has local access to the node, to copy this kubeconfig file and attempt to add their own node to the OpenShift cluster. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. This flaw affects versions before openshift4/ose-machine-config-operator v4.7.0-202105111858.p0.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914714

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 28.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-266
Status published
Products (2)
redhat/openshift 4.7.0
redhat/openshift < 4.7.0
Published Jun 02, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026