CVE-2022-23551

MEDIUM

Azure AD Pod Identity < 1.8.13 - Improper Restriction of Security Token Assignment via Backslash Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

aad-pod-identity assigns Azure Active Directory identities to Kubernetes applications and has now been deprecated as of 24 October 2022. The NMI component in AAD Pod Identity intercepts and validates token requests based on regex. In this case, a token request made with backslash in the request (example: `/metadata/identity\oauth2\token/`) would bypass the NMI validation and be sent to IMDS allowing a pod in the cluster to access identities that it shouldn't have access to. This issue has been fixed and has been included in AAD Pod Identity release version 1.8.13. If using the AKS pod-managed identities add-on, no action is required. The clusters should now be running the version 1.8.13 release.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0071
EPSS Percentile 48.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1259 CWE-863
Status published
Products (2)
Azure/aad-pod-identity 0 - 1.8.13Go
microsoft/azure_ad_pod_identity < 1.8.13
Published Dec 21, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026