cve-2021-25749
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-24 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 20:11
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Windows workloads can run as ContainerAdministrator even when those workloads set the runAsNonRoot option to true.
References
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/qqTZgulISzAMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/qqTZgulISzAMailing List
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