CVE-2021-25741
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-20 17:05
Modified
2024-09-16 23:26
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/104980Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/nyfdhK24H7sMailing List, Mitigation
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211008-0006/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
KubernetesKubernetes
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