CVE-2023-3893

HIGH

kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy <1.1.3 and 2.0.0-alpha.0 - Privilege Escalation via Pod Creation

Title source: llm

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes running kubernetes-csi-proxy may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes running kubernetes-csi-proxy.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Third Party Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231221-0004/

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/119594

Mailing List mailing-list

https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/lWksE2BoCyQ

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0286

EPSS Percentile 85.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (4)

kubernetes/csi_proxy 2.0.0 alpha0

kubernetes/csi_proxy < 1.1.2

kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy 0.1.0-rc1 - 1.1.3Go

kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy 2.0.0-alpha.0 - 2.0.0-alpha.1Go

Published Nov 03, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026