CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1000400

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-05-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-05-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

Kubernetes CRI-O version prior to 1.9 contains a Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability in the handling of ambient capabilities that can result in containers running with elevated privileges, allowing users abilities they should not have. This attack appears to be exploitable via container execution. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.9.

Affected configurations

• kubernetes cri-o (< 1.9.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References