CVE-2021-25735
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-06 11:32
Modified
2024-09-16 23:40
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/100096Patch, Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/FKAGqT4jx9YMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
KubernetesKubernetes
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