CVE-2023-5528 (GCVE-0-2023-5528)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-14 20:32 – Updated: 2024-09-06 14:18
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Summary
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods and persistent volumes on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they are using an in-tree storage plugin for Windows nodes.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes kubelet Affected: v1.28.0 , ≤ v1.28.3 (semver)
Affected: v1.27.0 , ≤ v1.27.7 (semver)
Affected: v1.26.0 , ≤ v1.26.10 (semver)
Affected: 0 , ≤ v1.25.15 (semver)
Unaffected: v1.28.4
Unaffected: v1.27.8
Unaffected: v1.26.11
Unaffected: v1.25.16
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