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High · 8.8 CVE-2023-3893 EUVD-2023-3024GHSA-r6cc-7wj7-gfx2GO-2023-2176

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

Published Nov 3, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by kubernetes

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Kubernetes csi-proxy v2.0.0-alpha.0, ≤ v1.1.2 v2.0.0-alpha.1

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
Debian 14 kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 —
Debian 13 kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 —
Debian 12 kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy >= 0.1.0-rc1, < 1.1.3 1.1.3 GHSA-r6cc-7wj7-gfx2
Go github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy < 0.0.0-20230821192013-2523e6674ded 0.0.0-20230821192013-2523e6674ded GHSA-r6cc-7wj7-gfx2
Go github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy >= 1.1.3-0, < 1.1.3-0.20230821192013-2523e6674ded 1.1.3-0.20230821192013-2523e6674ded GHSA-r6cc-7wj7-gfx2
Go github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy < 1.1.3 1.1.3 GO-2023-2176
Go github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy/v2 >= 2.0.0-alpha.0, < 2.0.0-alpha.1 2.0.0-alpha.1 GHSA-r6cc-7wj7-gfx2

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