CVE-2023-2431

LOW

Kubelet - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.

Scores

CVSS v3 3.4
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 1.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1287
Status published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora 38
k8s.io/kubernetes 0 - 1.24.14Go
kubernetes/kubernetes < 1.24.14
Published Jun 16, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026