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Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Kubernetes Cri O11 vulnerabilities

Kubernetes Ingress Nginx7 vulnerabilities

Kubernetes Minikube2 vulnerabilities

Kubernetes Image Builder2 vulnerabilities

Kubernetes Java2 vulnerabilities

Kubernetes Apiserver1 vulnerability

Kubernetes Operations1 vulnerability

Kubernetes Kube Apiserver1 vulnerability

Kubernetes Dashboard1 vulnerability

Kubernetes Csi Proxy1 vulnerability

By the Year

In 2024 there have been 4 vulnerabilities in Kubernetes with an average score of 8.4 out of ten. Last year Kubernetes had 19 security vulnerabilities published. Right now, Kubernetes is on track to have less security vulnerabilities in 2024 than it did last year. However, the average CVE base score of the vulnerabilities in 2024 is greater by 1.00.

Year Vulnerabilities Average Score
2024 4 8.43
2023 19 7.43
2022 11 6.32
2021 9 6.06
2020 14 6.01
2019 17 6.64
2018 6 8.47

It may take a day or so for new Kubernetes vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.

Recent Kubernetes Security Vulnerabilities

CRI-O Container Restore Mount Validation Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2024-8676 7.4 - High - November 26, 2024

A vulnerability was found in CRI-O, where it can be requested to take a checkpoint archive of a container and later be asked to restore it. When it does that restoration, it attempts to restore the mounts from the restore archive instead of the pod request. As a result, the validations run on the pod spec, verifying that the pod has access to the mounts it specifies are not applicable to a restored container. This flaw allows a malicious user to trick CRI-O into restoring a pod that doesn't have access to host mounts. The user needs access to the kubelet or cri-o socket to call the restore endpoint and trigger the restore.

AuthZ

A security issue was discovered in the Kubernetes Image Builder versions <= v0.1.37 where default credentials are enabled during the image build process

CVE-2024-9486 9.8 - Critical - October 15, 2024

A security issue was discovered in the Kubernetes Image Builder versions <= v0.1.37 where default credentials are enabled during the image build process. Virtual machine images built using the Proxmox provider do not disable these default credentials, and nodes using the resulting images may be accessible via these default credentials. The credentials can be used to gain root access. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if their nodes use VM images created via the Image Builder project with its Proxmox provider.

Use of Hard-coded Credentials

A security issue was discovered in the Kubernetes Image Builder versions <= v0.1.37 where default credentials are enabled during the image build process when using the Nutanix

CVE-2024-9594 8.1 - High - October 15, 2024

A security issue was discovered in the Kubernetes Image Builder versions <= v0.1.37 where default credentials are enabled during the image build process when using the Nutanix, OVA, QEMU or raw providers. The credentials can be used to gain root access. The credentials are disabled at the conclusion of the image build process. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if their nodes use VM images created via the Image Builder project. Because these images were vulnerable during the image build process, they are affected only if an attacker was able to reach the VM where the image build was happening and used the vulnerability to modify the image at the time the image build was occurring.

Use of Hard-coded Credentials

A flaw was found in cri-o

CVE-2024-5154 - June 12, 2024

A flaw was found in cri-o. A malicious container can create a symbolic link to arbitrary files on the host via directory traversal (../). This flaw allows the container to read and write to arbitrary files on the host system.

Directory traversal

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user

CVE-2023-5528 8.8 - High - November 14, 2023

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.

A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that allows an aggregated API server to redirect client traffic to any URL

CVE-2022-3172 8.2 - High - November 03, 2023

A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that allows an aggregated API server to redirect client traffic to any URL. This could lead to the client performing unexpected actions as well as forwarding the client's API server credentials to third parties.

SSRF

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user

CVE-2023-3893 8.8 - High - November 03, 2023

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes running kubernetes-csi-proxy may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes running kubernetes-csi-proxy.

Code injection via nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/permanent-redirect annotation.

CVE-2023-5044 8.8 - High - October 25, 2023

Code injection via nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/permanent-redirect annotation.

Code Injection

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution.

CVE-2023-5043 8.8 - High - October 25, 2023

Ingress nginx annotation injection causes arbitrary command execution.

Injection

Ingress-nginx `path` sanitization

CVE-2022-4886 6.5 - Medium - October 25, 2023

Ingress-nginx `path` sanitization can be bypassed with `log_format` directive.

Privilege Escalation in kOps using GCE/GCP Provider in Gossip Mode.

CVE-2023-1943 8.8 - High - October 12, 2023

Privilege Escalation in kOps using GCE/GCP Provider in Gossip Mode.

A vulnerability was found in cri-o

CVE-2022-4318 7.8 - High - September 25, 2023

A vulnerability was found in cri-o. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable.

Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources

An authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in kube-apiserver

CVE-2023-1260 8 - High - September 24, 2023

An authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in kube-apiserver. This issue could allow a remote, authenticated attacker who has been given permissions "update, patch" the "pods/ephemeralcontainers" subresource beyond what the default is. They would then need to create a new pod or patch one that they already have access to. This might allow evasion of SCC admission restrictions, thereby gaining control of a privileged pod.

The version of cri-o as released for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.48, 4.10.31, and 4.11.6

CVE-2022-3466 5.3 - Medium - September 15, 2023

The version of cri-o as released for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.48, 4.10.31, and 4.11.6 via RHBA-2022:6316, RHBA-2022:6257, and RHBA-2022:6658, respectively, included an incorrect version of cri-o missing the fix for CVE-2022-27652, which was previously fixed in OCP 4.9.41 and 4.10.12 via RHBA-2022:5433 and RHSA-2022:1600. This issue could allow an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs. For more details, see https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27652.

Incorrect Default Permissions

Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers

CVE-2023-2727 6.5 - Medium - July 03, 2023

Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ImagePolicyWebhook admission plugin is used together with ephemeral containers.

Users may be able to launch containers

CVE-2023-2728 6.5 - Medium - July 03, 2023

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service accounts secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement

CVE-2023-2431 5.5 - Medium - June 16, 2023

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.

Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver in versions before 1.3.3 discloses service account tokens in logs.

CVE-2023-2878 5.5 - Medium - June 07, 2023

Kubernetes secrets-store-csi-driver in versions before 1.3.3 discloses service account tokens in logs.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user

CVE-2021-25748 6.5 - Medium - May 24, 2023

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use a newline character to bypass the sanitization of the `spec.rules[].http.paths[].path` field of an Ingress object (in the `networking.k8s.io` or `extensions` API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

Windows workloads can run as ContainerAdministrator even when those workloads set the runAsNonRoot option to true.

CVE-2021-25749 7.8 - High - May 24, 2023

Windows workloads can run as ContainerAdministrator even when those workloads set the runAsNonRoot option to true.

This vulnerability enables ssh access to minikube container using a default password.

CVE-2023-1944 7.8 - High - May 24, 2023

This vulnerability enables ssh access to minikube container using a default password.

Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide

CVE-2022-3162 6.5 - Medium - March 01, 2023

Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. There are 2+ CustomResourceDefinitions sharing the same API group 2. Users have cluster-wide list or watch authorization on one of those custom resources. 3. The same users are not authorized to read another custom resource in the same API group.

Directory traversal

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network

CVE-2022-3294 8.8 - High - March 01, 2023

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the CRI-O container engine might lead to sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in

CVE-2022-2995 7.1 - High - September 19, 2022

Incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the CRI-O container engine might lead to sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

A security issue was discovered in aws-iam-authenticator where an

CVE-2022-2385 8.8 - High - July 12, 2022

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.

A vulnerability was found in CRI-O that causes memory or disk space exhaustion on the node for anyone with access to the Kube API

CVE-2022-1708 7.5 - High - June 07, 2022

A vulnerability was found in CRI-O that causes memory or disk space exhaustion on the node for anyone with access to the Kube API. The ExecSync request runs commands in a container and logs the output of the command. This output is then read by CRI-O after command execution, and it is read in a manner where the entire file corresponding to the output of the command is read in. Thus, if the output of the command is large it is possible to exhaust the memory or the disk space of the node when CRI-O reads the output of the command. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user

CVE-2021-25746 7.1 - High - May 06, 2022

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use .metadata.annotations in an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

Improper Input Validation

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user

CVE-2021-25745 8.1 - High - May 06, 2022

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the spec.rules[].http.paths[].path field of an Ingress object (in the networking.k8s.io or extensions API group) to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller. In the default configuration, that credential has access to all secrets in the cluster.

Improper Input Validation

A flaw was found in cri-o, where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions

CVE-2022-27652 5.3 - Medium - April 18, 2022

A flaw was found in cri-o, where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. A vulnerability was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where containers started incorrectly with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities. This flaw allows an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs.

Incorrect Default Permissions

A flaw was found in CRI-O in the way it set kernel options for a pod

CVE-2022-0811 8.8 - High - March 16, 2022

A flaw was found in CRI-O in the way it set kernel options for a pod. This issue allows anyone with rights to deploy a pod on a Kubernetes cluster that uses the CRI-O runtime to achieve a container escape and arbitrary code execution as root on the cluster node, where the malicious pod was deployed.

Code Injection

A missing permission check in Jenkins Kubernetes Continuous Deploy Plugin 2.3.1 and earlier

CVE-2022-27209 6.5 - Medium - March 15, 2022

A missing permission check in Jenkins Kubernetes Continuous Deploy Plugin 2.3.1 and earlier allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins.

AuthZ

An incorrect sysctls validation vulnerability was found in CRI-O 1.18 and earlier

CVE-2022-0532 4.2 - Medium - February 09, 2022

An incorrect sysctls validation vulnerability was found in CRI-O 1.18 and earlier. The sysctls from the list of "safe" sysctls specified for the cluster will be applied to the host if an attacker is able to create a pod with a hostIPC and hostNetwork kernel namespace.

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

As mitigations to a report

CVE-2020-8562 3.1 - Low - February 01, 2022

As mitigations to a report from 2019 and CVE-2020-8555, Kubernetes attempts to prevent proxied connections from accessing link-local or localhost networks when making user-driven connections to Services, Pods, Nodes, or StorageClass service providers. As part of this mitigation Kubernetes does a DNS name resolution check and validates that response IPs are not in the link-local (169.254.0.0/16) or localhost (127.0.0.0/8) range. Kubernetes then performs a second DNS resolution without validation for the actual connection. If a non-standard DNS server returns different non-cached responses, a user may be able to bypass the proxy IP restriction and access private networks on the control plane.

TOCTTOU

kubectl does not neutralize escape, meta or control sequences contained in the raw data it outputs to a terminal

CVE-2021-25743 3 - Low - January 07, 2022

kubectl does not neutralize escape, meta or control sequences contained in the raw data it outputs to a terminal. This includes but is not limited to the unstructured string fields in objects such as Events.

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user

CVE-2021-25742 7.1 - High - October 29, 2021

A security issue was discovered in ingress-nginx where a user that can create or update ingress objects can use the custom snippets feature to obtain all secrets in the cluster.

Loading specially-crafted yaml with the Kubernetes Java Client library

CVE-2021-25738 6.7 - Medium - October 11, 2021

Loading specially-crafted yaml with the Kubernetes Java Client library can lead to code execution.

Marshaling, Unmarshaling

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to create a container with subpath volume mounts to access files & directories outside of the volume

CVE-2021-25741 8.1 - High - September 20, 2021

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to create a container with subpath volume mounts to access files & directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

A security issue was discovered with Kubernetes

CVE-2021-25740 3.1 - Low - September 20, 2021

A security issue was discovered with Kubernetes that could enable users to send network traffic to locations they would otherwise not have access to via a confused deputy attack.

Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where actors

CVE-2020-8561 4.1 - Medium - September 20, 2021

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.

Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to redirect pod traffic to private networks on a Node

CVE-2021-25737 4.8 - Medium - September 06, 2021

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to redirect pod traffic to private networks on a Node. Kubernetes already prevents creation of Endpoint IPs in the localhost or link-local range, but the same validation was not performed on EndpointSlice IPs.

Open Redirect

A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook

CVE-2021-25735 6.5 - Medium - September 06, 2021

A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook. Clusters are only affected by this vulnerability if they run a Validating Admission Webhook for Nodes that denies admission based at least partially on the old state of the Node object. Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields.

Kubernetes API server in all versions allow an attacker who is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field, to intercept traffic to

CVE-2020-8554 5 - Medium - January 21, 2021

Kubernetes API server in all versions allow an attacker who is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field, to intercept traffic to that IP address. Additionally, an attacker who is able to patch the status (which is considered a privileged operation and should not typically be granted to users) of a LoadBalancer service can set the status.loadBalancer.ingress.ip to similar effect.

Kubernetes Java client libraries in version 10.0.0 and versions prior to 9.0.1

CVE-2020-8570 9.1 - Critical - January 21, 2021

Kubernetes Java client libraries in version 10.0.0 and versions prior to 9.0.1 allow writes to paths outside of the current directory when copying multiple files from a remote pod which sends a maliciously crafted archive. This can potentially overwrite any files on the system of the process executing the client code.

Directory traversal

In Kubernetes clusters using VSphere as a cloud provider

CVE-2020-8563 5.5 - Medium - December 07, 2020

In Kubernetes clusters using VSphere as a cloud provider, with a logging level set to 4 or above, VSphere cloud credentials will be leaked in the cloud controller manager's log. This affects < v1.19.3.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

In Kubernetes clusters using a logging level of at least 4, processing a malformed docker config file will result in the contents of the docker config file being leaked

CVE-2020-8564 5.5 - Medium - December 07, 2020

In Kubernetes clusters using a logging level of at least 4, processing a malformed docker config file will result in the contents of the docker config file being leaked, which can include pull secrets or other registry credentials. This affects < v1.19.3, < v1.18.10, < v1.17.13.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files

CVE-2020-8565 5.5 - Medium - December 07, 2020

In Kubernetes, if the logging level is set to at least 9, authorization and bearer tokens will be written to log files. This can occur both in API server logs and client tool output like kubectl. This affects <= v1.19.3, <= v1.18.10, <= v1.17.13, < v1.20.0-alpha2.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

In Kubernetes clusters using Ceph RBD as a storage provisioner, with logging level of at least 4, Ceph RBD admin secrets

CVE-2020-8566 5.5 - Medium - December 07, 2020

In Kubernetes clusters using Ceph RBD as a storage provisioner, with logging level of at least 4, Ceph RBD admin secrets can be written to logs. This occurs in kube-controller-manager's logs during provisioning of Ceph RBD persistent claims. This affects < v1.19.3, < v1.18.10, < v1.17.13.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, and 1.18.0-1.18.3 were found to contain a security issue which

CVE-2020-8558 8.8 - High - July 27, 2020

The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, and 1.18.0-1.18.3 were found to contain a security issue which allows adjacent hosts to reach TCP and UDP services bound to 127.0.0.1 running on the node or in the node's network namespace. Such a service is generally thought to be reachable only by other processes on the same host, but due to this defeect, could be reachable by other hosts on the same LAN as the node, or by containers running on the same node as the service.

The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod

CVE-2020-8557 5.5 - Medium - July 23, 2020

The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod which writes to its own /etc/hosts file. The /etc/hosts file mounted in a pod by kubelet is not included by the kubelet eviction manager when calculating ephemeral storage usage by a pod. If a pod writes a large amount of data to the /etc/hosts file, it could fill the storage space of the node and cause the node to fail.

Resource Exhaustion

The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-v1.17 is vulnerable to a credential leakage

CVE-2019-11252 6.5 - Medium - July 23, 2020

The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-v1.17 is vulnerable to a credential leakage via error messages in mount failure logs and events for AzureFile and CephFS volumes.

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests

CVE-2020-8559 6.8 - Medium - July 22, 2020

The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges from a node compromise to a full cluster compromise.

Open Redirect

The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-1.14, versions prior to v1.15.12, v1.16.9, v1.17.5, and version v1.18.0 are vulnerable to a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

CVE-2020-8555 6.3 - Medium - June 05, 2020

The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-1.14, versions prior to v1.15.12, v1.16.9, v1.17.5, and version v1.18.0 are vulnerable to a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) that allows certain authorized users to leak up to 500 bytes of arbitrary information from unprotected endpoints within the master's host network (such as link-local or loopback services).

SSRF

The Kubernetes API Server component in versions 1.1-1.14, and versions prior to 1.15.10, 1.16.7 and 1.17.3

CVE-2019-11254 6.5 - Medium - April 01, 2020

The Kubernetes API Server component in versions 1.1-1.14, and versions prior to 1.15.10, 1.16.7 and 1.17.3 allows an authorized user who sends malicious YAML payloads to cause the kube-apiserver to consume excessive CPU cycles while parsing YAML.

Resource Exhaustion

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack

CVE-2020-8551 6.5 - Medium - March 27, 2020

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack

CVE-2020-8552 4.3 - Medium - March 27, 2020

The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via successful API requests.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The Kubernetes kubectl cp command in versions 1.1-1.12, and versions prior to 1.13.11, 1.14.7, and 1.15.4

CVE-2019-11251 5.7 - Medium - February 03, 2020

The Kubernetes kubectl cp command in versions 1.1-1.12, and versions prior to 1.13.11, 1.14.7, and 1.15.4 allows a combination of two symlinks provided by tar output of a malicious container to place a file outside of the destination directory specified in the kubectl cp invocation. This could be used to allow an attacker to place a nefarious file using a symlink, outside of the destination tree.

insecure temporary file

Versions < 1.5 of the Kubernetes ingress default backend

CVE-2018-1002104 5.3 - Medium - January 14, 2020

Versions < 1.5 of the Kubernetes ingress default backend, which handles invalid ingress traffic, exposed prometheus metrics publicly.

Improper Input Validation

Improper input validation in Kubernetes CSI sidecar containers for external-provisioner (<v0.4.3, <v1.0.2, v1.1, <v1.2.2, <v1.3.1), external-snapshotter (<v0.4.2, <v1.0.2, v1.1, <1.2.2), and external-resizer (v0.1, v0.2) could result in unauthorized PersistentVolume data access or volume mutation during snapshot, restore

CVE-2019-11255 6.5 - Medium - December 05, 2019

Improper input validation in Kubernetes CSI sidecar containers for external-provisioner (<v0.4.3, <v1.0.2, v1.1, <v1.2.2, <v1.3.1), external-snapshotter (<v0.4.2, <v1.0.2, v1.1, <1.2.2), and external-resizer (v0.1, v0.2) could result in unauthorized PersistentVolume data access or volume mutation during snapshot, restore from snapshot, cloning and resizing operations.

Improper Input Validation

Improper validation of URL redirection in the Kubernetes API server in versions prior to v1.14.0

CVE-2018-1002102 2.6 - Low - December 05, 2019

Improper validation of URL redirection in the Kubernetes API server in versions prior to v1.14.0 allows an attacker-controlled Kubelet to redirect API server requests from streaming endpoints to arbitrary hosts. Impacted API servers will follow the redirect as a GET request with client-certificate credentials for authenticating to the Kubelet.

Open Redirect

A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup

CVE-2019-14891 5 - Medium - November 25, 2019

A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup. This can result in container management (conmon) processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory (OOM) condition for the cgroup. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get host network access on an cri-o host.

Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Improper input validation in the Kubernetes API server in versions v1.0-1.12 and versions prior to v1.13.12, v1.14.8, v1.15.5, and v1.16.2

CVE-2019-11253 7.5 - High - October 17, 2019

Improper input validation in the Kubernetes API server in versions v1.0-1.12 and versions prior to v1.13.12, v1.14.8, v1.15.5, and v1.16.2 allows authorized users to send malicious YAML or JSON payloads, causing the API server to consume excessive CPU or memory, potentially crashing and becoming unavailable. Prior to v1.14.0, default RBAC policy authorized anonymous users to submit requests that could trigger this vulnerability. Clusters upgraded from a version prior to v1.14.0 keep the more permissive policy by default for backwards compatibility.

Improper Input Validation

In kubelet v1.13.6 and v1.14.2, containers for pods

CVE-2019-11245 7.8 - High - August 29, 2019

In kubelet v1.13.6 and v1.14.2, containers for pods that do not specify an explicit runAsUser attempt to run as uid 0 (root) on container restart, or if the image was previously pulled to the node. If the pod specified mustRunAsNonRoot: true, the kubelet will refuse to start the container as root. If the pod did not specify mustRunAsNonRoot: true, the kubelet will run the container as uid 0.

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

The Kubernetes client-go library logs request headers at verbosity levels of 7 or higher

CVE-2019-11250 6.5 - Medium - August 29, 2019

The Kubernetes client-go library logs request headers at verbosity levels of 7 or higher. This can disclose credentials to unauthorized users via logs or command output. Kubernetes components (such as kube-apiserver) prior to v1.16.0, which make use of basic or bearer token authentication, and run at high verbosity levels, are affected.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine

CVE-2019-11249 6.5 - Medium - August 29, 2019

The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine. To copy files from a container, Kubernetes runs tar inside the container to create a tar archive, copies it over the network, and kubectl unpacks it on the users machine. If the tar binary in the container is malicious, it could run any code and output unexpected, malicious results. An attacker could use this to write files to any path on the users machine when kubectl cp is called, limited only by the system permissions of the local user. Kubernetes affected versions include versions prior to 1.13.9, versions prior to 1.14.5, versions prior to 1.15.2, and versions 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12.

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

The debugging endpoint /debug/pprof is exposed over the unauthenticated Kubelet healthz port

CVE-2019-11248 8.2 - High - August 29, 2019

The debugging endpoint /debug/pprof is exposed over the unauthenticated Kubelet healthz port. The go pprof endpoint is exposed over the Kubelet's healthz port. This debugging endpoint can potentially leak sensitive information such as internal Kubelet memory addresses and configuration, or for limited denial of service. Versions prior to 1.15.0, 1.14.4, 1.13.8, and 1.12.10 are affected. The issue is of medium severity, but not exposed by the default configuration.

Information Disclosure

The Kubernetes kube-apiserver mistakenly

CVE-2019-11247 8.1 - High - August 29, 2019

The Kubernetes kube-apiserver mistakenly allows access to a cluster-scoped custom resource if the request is made as if the resource were namespaced. Authorizations for the resource accessed in this manner are enforced using roles and role bindings within the namespace, meaning that a user with access only to a resource in one namespace could create, view update or delete the cluster-scoped resource (according to their namespace role privileges). Kubernetes affected versions include versions prior to 1.13.9, versions prior to 1.14.5, versions prior to 1.15.2, and versions 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12.

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine

CVE-2019-11246 6.5 - Medium - August 29, 2019

The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine. To copy files from a container, Kubernetes runs tar inside the container to create a tar archive, copies it over the network, and kubectl unpacks it on the users machine. If the tar binary in the container is malicious, it could run any code and output unexpected, malicious results. An attacker could use this to write files to any path on the users machine when kubectl cp is called, limited only by the system permissions of the local user. Kubernetes affected versions include versions prior to 1.12.9, versions prior to 1.13.6, versions prior to 1.14.2, and versions 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11.

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

In Kubernetes v1.8.x-v1.14.x

CVE-2019-11244 5 - Medium - April 22, 2019

In Kubernetes v1.8.x-v1.14.x, schema info is cached by kubectl in the location specified by --cache-dir (defaulting to $HOME/.kube/http-cache), written with world-writeable permissions (rw-rw-rw-). If --cache-dir is specified and pointed at a different location accessible to other users/groups, the written files may be modified by other users/groups and disrupt the kubectl invocation.

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

In Kubernetes v1.12.0-v1.12.4 and v1.13.0

CVE-2019-11243 8.1 - High - April 22, 2019

In Kubernetes v1.12.0-v1.12.4 and v1.13.0, the rest.AnonymousClientConfig() method returns a copy of the provided config, with credentials removed (bearer token, username/password, and client certificate/key data). In the affected versions, rest.AnonymousClientConfig() did not effectively clear service account credentials loaded using rest.InClusterConfig()

Credentials Management Errors

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) CNI (Container Networking Interface) 0.7.4 has a network firewall misconfiguration

CVE-2019-9946 7.5 - High - April 02, 2019

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) CNI (Container Networking Interface) 0.7.4 has a network firewall misconfiguration which affects Kubernetes. The CNI 'portmap' plugin, used to setup HostPorts for CNI, inserts rules at the front of the iptables nat chains; which take precedence over the KUBE- SERVICES chain. Because of this, the HostPort/portmap rule could match incoming traffic even if there were better fitting, more specific service definition rules like NodePorts later in the chain. The issue is fixed in CNI 0.7.5 and Kubernetes 1.11.9, 1.12.7, 1.13.5, and 1.14.0.

Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.11.8, v1.12.6, and v1.13.4, users

CVE-2019-1002100 6.5 - Medium - April 01, 2019

In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.11.8, v1.12.6, and v1.13.4, users that are authorized to make patch requests to the Kubernetes API Server can send a specially crafted patch of type "json-patch" (e.g. `kubectl patch --type json` or `"Content-Type: application/json-patch+json"`) that consumes excessive resources while processing, causing a Denial of Service on the API Server.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine

CVE-2019-1002101 5.5 - Medium - April 01, 2019

The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine. To copy files from a container, Kubernetes creates a tar inside the container, copies it over the network, and kubectl unpacks it on the users machine. If the tar binary in the container is malicious, it could run any code and output unexpected, malicious results. An attacker could use this to write files to any path on the users machine when kubectl cp is called, limited only by the system permissions of the local user. The untar function can both create and follow symbolic links. The issue is resolved in kubectl v1.11.9, v1.12.7, v1.13.5, and v1.14.0.

insecure temporary file

The kube-rbac-proxy container before version 0.4.1 as used in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform does not honor TLS configurations

CVE-2019-3818 7.5 - High - February 05, 2019

The kube-rbac-proxy container before version 0.4.1 as used in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform does not honor TLS configurations, allowing for use of insecure ciphers and TLS 1.0. An attacker could target traffic sent over a TLS connection with a weak configuration and potentially break the encryption.

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Kubernetes Dashboard before 1.10.1

CVE-2018-18264 7.5 - High - January 03, 2019

Kubernetes Dashboard before 1.10.1 allows attackers to bypass authentication and use Dashboard's Service Account for reading secrets within the cluster.

Missing Authentication for Critical Function

In Minikube versions 0.3.0-0.29.0, minikube exposes the Kubernetes Dashboard listening on the VM IP at port 30000

CVE-2018-1002103 8.8 - High - December 05, 2018

In Minikube versions 0.3.0-0.29.0, minikube exposes the Kubernetes Dashboard listening on the VM IP at port 30000. In VM environments where the IP is easy to predict, the attacker can use DNS rebinding to indirectly make requests to the Kubernetes Dashboard, create a new Kubernetes Deployment running arbitrary code. If minikube mount is in use, the attacker could also directly access the host filesystem.

Session Riding

In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.10.11, v1.11.5, and v1.12.3, incorrect handling of error responses to proxied upgrade requests in the kube-apiserver

CVE-2018-1002105 9.8 - Critical - December 05, 2018

In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.10.11, v1.11.5, and v1.12.3, incorrect handling of error responses to proxied upgrade requests in the kube-apiserver allowed specially crafted requests to establish a connection through the Kubernetes API server to backend servers, then send arbitrary requests over the same connection directly to the backend, authenticated with the Kubernetes API server's TLS credentials used to establish the backend connection.

7PK - Errors

In Kubernetes versions 1.9.0-1.9.9, 1.10.0-1.10.5, and 1.11.0-1.11.1, user input was handled insecurely while setting up volume mounts on Windows nodes

CVE-2018-1002101 9.8 - Critical - December 05, 2018

In Kubernetes versions 1.9.0-1.9.9, 1.10.0-1.10.5, and 1.11.0-1.11.1, user input was handled insecurely while setting up volume mounts on Windows nodes, which could lead to command line argument injection.

It was found that Kubernetes as used by Openshift Enterprise 3 did not correctly validate X.509 client intermediate certificate host name fields

CVE-2016-7075 8.1 - High - September 10, 2018

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.

Improper Certificate Validation

In Kubernetes versions 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x, and prior to version 1.9.6, the kubectl cp command insecurely handles tar data returned

CVE-2018-1002100 5.5 - Medium - June 02, 2018

In Kubernetes versions 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x, and prior to version 1.9.6, the kubectl cp command insecurely handles tar data returned from the container, and can be caused to overwrite arbitrary local files.

Improper Input Validation

Kubernetes CRI-O version prior to 1.9 contains a Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability in the handling of ambient capabilities

CVE-2018-1000400 8.8 - High - May 18, 2018

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.

Improper Privilege Management

Kubernetes in OpenShift3

CVE-2015-7561 3.1 - Low - August 07, 2017

Kubernetes in OpenShift3 allows remote authenticated users to use the private images of other users should they know the name of said image.

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Kubernetes before 1.2.0-alpha.5

CVE-2015-7528 5.3 - Medium - April 11, 2016

Kubernetes before 1.2.0-alpha.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary pod logs via a container name.

Information Disclosure

The API server in Kubernetes does not properly check admission control, which

CVE-2016-1905 7.7 - High - February 03, 2016

The API server in Kubernetes does not properly check admission control, which allows remote authenticated users to access additional resources via a crafted patched object.

Authorization

Openshift allows remote attackers to gain privileges by updating a build configuration

CVE-2016-1906 9.8 - Critical - February 03, 2016

Openshift allows remote attackers to gain privileges by updating a build configuration that was created with an allowed type to a type that is not allowed.

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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