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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

    Subpath symlinking on Windows nodes permits NTLM coercion

    An NTLM coercion vulnerability exists on Windows nodes when the subPath supplied in a pod's volumeMounts is set to a symbolic link that points to an attacker-controlled network share. When a kubelet resolves symlinks, it does not reject a target that resolves…

  • Medium 6.5

    Kubernetes kubectl cp path traversal on Windows allows arbitrary file writes

    A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in the Kubernetes kubectl client's kubectl cp command on Windows. When copying files from a container, kubectl runs tar inside the container to build a tar archive, transfers it over the network, and unpacks it on…

  • Medium 6.5

    CSI Driver for NFS path traversal via subDir may delete unintended directories on the NFS server

    A vulnerability was discovered in the Kubernetes CSI Driver for NFS where the subDir parameter in volume identifiers was insufficiently validated. Attackers with the ability to create PersistentVolumes referencing the NFS CSI driver could craft volume identif…

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2026-24514 Public exploit

    ingress-nginx Admission Controller denial of service

    A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where the validating admission controller feature is subject to a denial of service condition. By sending large requests to the validating admission controller, an attacker can cause memory consumption, which m…

  • 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 6.8

    Kubernetes C# Client: improper certificate validation in custom CA mode may lead to man-in-the-middle attacks

    A vulnerability exists in the Kubernetes C# client where the certificate validation logic accepts properly constructed certificates from any Certificate Authority (CA) without properly verifying the trust chain. This flaw allows a malicious actor to present a…

  • Medium 6.5

    Kubernetes secrets-store-sync-controller discloses service account tokens in logs

    Kubernetes secrets-store-sync-controller in versions before 0.0.2 discloses service account tokens in logs.

  • 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…

  • Medium 4.8

    ingress-nginx controller - auth secret file path traversal vulnerability

    A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx where attacker-provided data are included in a filename by the ingress-nginx Admission Controller feature, resulting in directory traversal within the container. This…

  • 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 5.9

    Kubernetes allows Command Injection affecting Windows nodes via nodes/*/logs/query API

    This CVE affects only Windows worker nodes. Your worker node is vulnerable to this issue if it is running one of the affected versions listed below.

  • 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.

  • Medium 6.3

    VM images built with Image Builder with some providers use default credentials during builds

    A security issue was discovered in the Kubernetes Image Builder versions <= v0.1.37 where default credentials are enabled during the image build process when using the Nutanix, OVA, QEMU or raw providers. The credentials can be used to gain root access. The c…

  • Medium 6.1

    Incorrect permissions on Windows containers logs

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes where BUILTIN\Users may be able to read container logs and NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.

  • Medium 6.5

    Kubernetes azure-file-csi-driver in versions before 1.29.4 and 1.30.1 discloses service account tokens in logs

    A security issue was discovered in azure-file-csi-driver where an actor with access to the driver logs could observe service account tokens. These tokens could then potentially be exchanged with external cloud providers to access secrets stored in cloud vault…

  • 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…

  • Medium 5.8

    Windows kube-proxy LoadBalancer contention

    Kube-proxy on Windows can unintentionally forward traffic to local processes listening on the same port (“spec.ports[*].port”) as a LoadBalancer Service when the LoadBalancer controller does not set the “status.loadBalancer.ingress[].ip” field. Clusters where…

  • 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.

  • Medium 6.5

    Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver discloses service account tokens in logs

    Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver in versions before 1.3.3 discloses service account tokens in logs.

  • 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…

  • Medium 6.7

    Code exec via yaml parsing

    Loading specially-crafted yaml with the Kubernetes Java Client library can lead to code execution.

  • 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…

  • 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 4.9

    Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver plugin directory traversals

    Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver Vault Plugin prior to v0.0.6, Azure Plugin prior to v0.0.10, and GCP Plugin prior to v0.2.0 allow an attacker who can create specially-crafted SecretProviderClass objects to write to arbitrary file paths on the host filesys…

  • Medium 4.3

    Kubernetes CSI snapshot-controller DoS

    Kubernetes CSI snapshot-controller prior to v2.1.3 and v3.0.2 could panic when processing a VolumeSnapshot custom resource when: - The VolumeSnapshot referenced a non-existing PersistentVolumeClaim and the VolumeSnapshot did not reference any VolumeSnapshotCl…

  • 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 5.8

    Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver sync/rotate directory traversal

    Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver versions v0.0.15 and v0.0.16 allow an attacker who can modify a SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes pa…

  • Medium 4.7

    Secret leaks in logs for vSphere Provider kube-controller-manager

    In Kubernetes clusters using VSphere as a cloud provider, with a logging level set to 4 or above, VSphere cloud credentials will be leaked in the cloud controller manager's log. This affects < v1.19.3.

  • 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 5.9

    Kubernetes ingress-nginx Compromise of auth via subset/superset namespace names

    The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic…

  • 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…