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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2021-25736 EUVD-2023-2624GHSA-35c7-w35f-xwghGO-2023-2159

Windows kube-proxy LoadBalancer contention

Published Oct 30, 2023 · Updated Jun 12, 2025 · Assigned by kubernetes

Description

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 the LoadBalancer controller sets the
“status.loadBalancer.ingress[].ip” field are unaffected.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Kubernetes Kubernetes ≤ v1.20.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250807T150727-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15424-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go k8s.io/kubernetes < 1.21.0 1.21.0 GHSA-35c7-w35f-xwgh

Advisories 2

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