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  • Medium 5.9

    StatefulSet and ControllerRevision write permissions allow cross-namespace pod creation

    A confused deputy attack exists in the StatefulSet controller that allows a user with namespace-scoped write permissions on StatefulSet and ControllerRevision objects to create a cross-namespace pod. An attacker exploiting this vulnerability would have full c…

  • Medium 5.8

    Portworx Half-Blind SSRF in kube-controller-manager

    A half-blind Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in kube-controller-manager when using the in-tree Portworx StorageClass. This vulnerability allows authorized users to leak arbitrary information from unprotected endpoints in the control pl…

  • Medium 6.7

    Nodes can delete themselves by adding an OwnerReference

    A vulnerability exists in the NodeRestriction admission controller in Kubernetes clusters where node users can delete their corresponding node object by patching themselves with an OwnerReference to a cluster-scoped resource. If the OwnerReference resource do…

  • Low 2.7

    Nodes can bypass dynamic resource allocation authorization checks

    A vulnerability exists in the NodeRestriction admission controller where nodes can bypass dynamic resource allocation authorization checks. When the DynamicResourceAllocation feature gate is enabled, the controller properly validates resource claim statuses d…

  • Low 3.1

    Network restriction bypass via race condition during namespace termination

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a malicious or compromised pod could bypass network restrictions enforced by network policies during namespace deletion. The order in which objects are deleted during namespace termination is not defined, an…

  • Medium 6.5

    Kubernetes GitRepo Volume Inadvertent Local Repository Access

    This CVE only affects Kubernetes clusters that utilize the in-tree gitRepo volume to clone git repositories from other pods within the same node. Since the in-tree gitRepo volume feature has been deprecated and will not receive security updates upstream, any …

  • Medium 6.2

    Node Denial of Service via kubelet Checkpoint API

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a large number of container checkpoint requests made to the unauthenticated kubelet read-only HTTP endpoint may cause a Node Denial of Service by filling the Node's disk.

  • High 8.1
    CVE-2024-10220 Public exploit

    Arbitrary command execution through gitRepo volume

    The Kubernetes kubelet component allows arbitrary command execution via specially crafted gitRepo volumes.This issue affects kubelet: through 1.28.11, from 1.29.0 through 1.29.6, from 1.30.0 through 1.30.2.

  • Low 2.7
    CVE-2024-3177 Public exploit

    Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers with the envFr…

  • Medium 5.1
    CVE-2022-3172 Public exploit

    Kubernetes - API server - Aggregated API server can cause clients to be redirected (SSRF)

    A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that allows an aggregated API server to redirect client traffic to any URL. This could lead to the client performing unexpected actions as well as forwarding the client's API server credentials to third partie…

  • High 8.8

    Kubernetes - csi-proxy - Insufficient input sanitization leads to privilege escalation

    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 runni…

  • High 8.8

    Kubernetes - Windows nodes - Insufficient input sanitization leads to privilege escalation

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

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2023-3676 EPSS 13%

    Kubernetes - Windows nodes - Insufficient input sanitization leads to privilege escalation

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

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2023-2728 Public exploit

    Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

    Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the…

  • Medium 6.5

    Bypassing policies imposed by the ImagePolicyWebhook admission plugin

    Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ImagePolicyWebhook admission plugin is used together with ephemeral containers.

  • Low 3.4

    Bypass of seccomp profile enforcement

    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…

  • Medium 6.5

    Unauthorized read of Custom Resources

    Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. T…

  • Medium 6.6
    CVE-2022-3294 Public exploit

    Node address isn't always verified when proxying

    Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserv…

  • Low 2.2

    Bypass of Kubernetes API Server proxy TOCTOU

    As mitigations to a report from 2019 and CVE-2020-8555, Kubernetes attempts to prevent proxied connections from accessing link-local or localhost networks when making user-driven connections to Services, Pods, Nodes, or StorageClass service providers. As part…

  • Low 3.0

    ANSI escape characters in kubectl output are not being filtered

    kubectl does not neutralize escape, meta or control sequences contained in the raw data it outputs to a terminal. This includes but is not limited to the unstructured string fields in objects such as Events.

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2021-25741 Public exploit

    Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to create a container with subpath volume mounts to access files & directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

  • Low 3.1

    Holes in EndpointSlice Validation Enable Host Network Hijack

    A security issue was discovered with Kubernetes that could enable users to send network traffic to locations they would otherwise not have access to via a confused deputy attack.

  • Medium 4.1

    Webhook redirect in kube-apiserver

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where actors that control the responses of MutatingWebhookConfiguration or ValidatingWebhookConfiguration requests are able to redirect kube-apiserver requests to private networks of the apiserver. If that user ca…

  • Low 2.7

    Holes in EndpointSlice Validation Enable Host Network Hijack

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to redirect pod traffic to private networks on a Node. Kubernetes already prevents creation of Endpoint IPs in the localhost or link-local range, but the same validation was not performed …

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2021-25735 Public exploit

    Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields

    A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook. Clusters are only affected by this vulnerability if they run a Validating Admission Webhook for Nodes that denies admission based at leas…

  • Medium 6.3
    CVE-2020-8554 Public exploit

    Kubernetes man in the middle using LoadBalancer or ExternalIPs

    Kubernetes API server in all versions allow an attacker who is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field, to intercept traffic to that IP address. Additionally, an attacker who is able to patch the status (which is considered a pri…

  • Medium 4.7

    Docker config secrets leaked when file is malformed and loglevel >= 4

    In Kubernetes clusters using a logging level of at least 4, processing a malformed docker config file will result in the contents of the docker config file being leaked, which can include pull secrets or other registry credentials. This affects < v1.19.3, < v…

  • Medium 4.7

    Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11250 allows for token leak in logs when logLevel >= 9

    In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files. This can occur both in API server logs and client tool output like kubectl. This affects <= v1.19.3, <= v1.18.10, <= v1.17.13, < v1.20.0-al…

  • Medium 4.7

    Ceph RBD adminSecrets exposed in logs when loglevel >= 4

    In Kubernetes clusters using Ceph RBD as a storage provisioner, with logging level of at least 4, Ceph RBD admin secrets can be written to logs. This occurs in kube-controller-manager's logs during provisioning of Ceph RBD persistent claims. This affects < v1…

  • Medium 5.4
    CVE-2020-8558 Public exploit

    Kubernetes node setting allows for neighboring hosts to bypass localhost boundary

    The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, and 1.18.0-1.18.3 were found to contain a security issue which allows adjacent hosts to reach TCP and UDP services bound to 127.0.0.1 running on the node or in the node's network …

  • Medium 5.5

    Kubernetes node disk Denial of Service by writing to container /etc/hosts

    The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod which writes to its own /etc/hosts file. The /etc/hosts file mounted in a pod by kubelet is not included by the kubelet eviction m…

  • Medium 5.9

    Credential leakage when failing to mount

    The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-v1.17 is vulnerable to a credential leakage via error messages in mount failure logs and events for AzureFile and CephFS volumes.

  • Medium 6.4
    CVE-2020-8559 Public exploit

    Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster

    The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges from a node compromise to a ful…

  • Medium 6.3

    Kubernetes kube-controller-manager SSRF

    The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-1.14, versions prior to v1.15.12, v1.16.9, v1.17.5, and version v1.18.0 are vulnerable to a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) that allows certain authorized users to leak up to 500 bytes of arbitrary in…

  • Medium 6.5

    Kubernetes API Server denial of service vulnerability from malicious YAML payloads

    The Kubernetes API Server component in versions 1.1-1.14, and versions prior to 1.15.10, 1.16.7 and 1.17.3 allows an authorized user who sends malicious YAML payloads to cause the kube-apiserver to consume excessive CPU cycles while parsing YAML.

  • Medium 5.3

    Kubernetes API server denial of service

    The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via successful API requests.

  • Medium 4.3

    Kubernetes kubelet denial of service

    The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authe…

  • Low 2.6

    Kubernetes API server follows unvalidated redirects from streaming Kubelet endpoints

    Improper validation of URL redirection in the Kubernetes API server in versions prior to v1.14.0 allows an attacker-controlled Kubelet to redirect API server requests from streaming endpoints to arbitrary hosts. Impacted API servers will follow the redirect a…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-11253 EPSS 26%

    Kubernetes API Server JSON/YAML parsing vulnerable to resource exhaustion attack

    Improper input validation in the Kubernetes API server in versions v1.0-1.12 and versions prior to v1.13.12, v1.14.8, v1.15.5, and v1.16.2 allows authorized users to send malicious YAML or JSON payloads, causing the API server to consume excessive CPU or memo…

  • Medium 4.7

    Kubernetes client-go logs authorization headers at debug verbosity levels

    The Kubernetes client-go library logs request headers at verbosity levels of 7 or higher. This can disclose credentials to unauthorized users via logs or command output. Kubernetes components (such as kube-apiserver) prior to v1.16.0, which make use of basic …