CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5528
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2023-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• kubernetes kubernetes (>= 1.8.0 < 1.25.16)
• kubernetes kubernetes (>= 1.26.0 < 1.26.11)
• kubernetes kubernetes (>= 1.27.0 < 1.27.8)
• kubernetes kubernetes (>= 1.28.0 < 1.28.4)
• fedoraproject fedora 37
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• fedoraproject fedora 39
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/121879 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/SL_d4NR8pzA Mailing List
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/121879 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/SL_d4NR8pzA Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3JH444PWZBINXLLFV7XLIJIZJHSK6UEZ/ Patch, Release Notes
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4XZIX727JIKF5RQW7RVVBLWXBCDIBJA7/ Patch, Release Notes
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7MPGMITSZXUCAVO7Q75675SOLXC2XXU4/ Patch, Release Notes
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0009/ Third Party Advisory