Kubernetes Privilege Escalation · CVE-2017-1000056 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Kubernetes Privilege Escalation

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 12, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 18, 2023

Package

k8s.io/kubernetes (Go)

Affected versions

>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.5

Patched versions

1.5.5

Description

Kubernetes version 1.5.0-1.5.4 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation in the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 12, 2021

Reviewed Sep 8, 2022

Last updated Sep 18, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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