CVE-2023-2878 (GCVE-0-2023-2878)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-07 14:35 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver discloses service account tokens in logs
Summary
Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver in versions before 1.3.3 discloses service account tokens in logs.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-06 21:04 UTC
CWE
- CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/118419 | issue-tracking |
| https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-a… | mailing-list |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023081… |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | secrets-store-csi-driver |
Affected:
0 , < 1.3.3
(semver)
Unaffected: 1.3.3 |
guessed |
Date Public
2023-05-25 04:00
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- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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