CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7075
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
It was found that Kubernetes as used by Openshift Enterprise 3 did not correctly validate X.509 client intermediate certificate host name fields. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass authentication requirements by using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.
Affected configurations
• kubernetes kubernetes
• redhat openshift 3.1
• redhat openshift 3.2
• redhat openshift 3.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2064 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7075 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/34517 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2064 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7075 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/34517 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory