Description
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20CWE-20
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- KUBERNETES
- Published
- 10/31/2023
- Last Modified
- 2/13/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
kubernetes : kuberneteskubernetes : kuberneteskubernetes : kuberneteskubernetes : kuberneteskubernetes : kubernetes
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