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Kubelet vulnerable to bypass of seccomp profile enforcement

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 16, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 7, 2023

Package

gomod k8s.io/kubernetes (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.24.14
>= 1.25.0, < 1.25.10
>= 1.26.0, < 1.26.5
>= 1.27.0, < 1.27.2

Patched versions

1.24.14
1.25.10
1.26.5
1.27.2

Description

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 the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 16, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 16, 2023
Reviewed Jun 16, 2023
Last updated Nov 7, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-2431

GHSA ID

GHSA-xc8m-28vv-4pjc

Source code

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