CVE-2019-11251
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-02-03 15:35
Modified
2024-08-04 22:48
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
kubectl cp allows symlink directory traversal
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/87773Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-announce/YYtEFdFimZ4/nZnOezZuBgAJMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
KubernetesKubernetes
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