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CVE-2020-8561

MEDIUM
4.1CVSS
Published: 2021-09-20
Updated: 2024-11-21
AI Analysis

Description

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 can view kube-apiserver logs when the log level is set to 10, they can view the redirected responses and headers in the logs.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
high
User Action
none
Scope
changed
Confidentiality
low
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-441CWE-610

Metadata

Primary Vendor
KUBERNETES
Published
9/20/2021
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

kubernetes : kuberneteskubernetes : kuberneteskubernetes : kubernetes

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