CVE-2023-5408
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-02 02:55
Modified
2024-11-23 00:46
Severity ?
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5006Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6130Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6842Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7479Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5408Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242173Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/pull/1736Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Unaffected: v4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.12::el8
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 Unaffected: v4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el8
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 Unaffected: v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el8
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