ubuntu-cve-2020-8561
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2021-09-20 17:15
Modified
2025-07-14 04:36
Summary
Details

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where actors that control the responses of MutatingWebhookConfiguration or ValidatingWebhookConfiguration requests are able to redirect kube-apiserver requests to private networks of the apiserver. If that user can view kube-apiserver logs when the log level is set to 10, they can view the redirected responses and headers in the logs.

Severity
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS",
        "name": "kubernetes",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/kubernetes@1.0?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-apps/focal"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.0"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "kubernetes",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/kubernetes@1.0?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.0"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
        "name": "kubernetes",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/kubernetes@1.0?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where actors that control the responses of MutatingWebhookConfiguration or ValidatingWebhookConfiguration requests are able to redirect kube-apiserver requests to private networks of the apiserver. If that user can view kube-apiserver logs when the log level is set to 10, they can view the redirected responses and headers in the logs.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8561",
  "modified": "2025-07-14T04:36:55Z",
  "published": "2021-09-20T17:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-8561"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/104720"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8561"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2020-8561"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-08-28T16:59:42Z"
}



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