CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-2385
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
A security issue was discovered in aws-iam-authenticator where an allow-listed IAM identity may be able to modify their username and escalate privileges.
Affected configurations
• kubernetes aws-iam-authenticator (>= 0.5.2 < 0.5.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/issues/472 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/dev/c/EMxHpU-1ZYs Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/issues/472 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/dev/c/EMxHpU-1ZYs Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory