CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-5408

Published: Nov 02, 2023 | Modified: Jan 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.2 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openshift_container_platform Redhat 4.11 (including) 4.11 (including)
Openshift_container_platform Redhat 4.12 (including) 4.12 (including)
Openshift_container_platform Redhat 4.13 (including) 4.13 (including)
Openshift_container_platform Redhat 4.14 (including) 4.14 (including)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 RedHat openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:v4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 RedHat openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:v4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 RedHat openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:v4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 RedHat openshift4/ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator:v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream *

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