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CVE-2023-5528

Published: Nov 14, 2023 | Modified: Jan 19, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5528
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kubernetes Kubernetes 1.8.0 (including) 1.25.16 (excluding)
Kubernetes Kubernetes 1.26.0 (including) 1.26.11 (excluding)
Kubernetes Kubernetes 1.27.0 (including) 1.27.8 (excluding)
Kubernetes Kubernetes 1.28.0 (including) 1.28.4 (excluding)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle:v6.0.3-8 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-rhel8-operator:6.0.3-9 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle:v7.2.0-29 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-rhel8-operator:7.2.0-30 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle:v8.1.1-7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-rhel9-operator:8.1.1-6 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle:v9.0.1-15 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-rhel9-operator:9.0.1-16 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 RedHat openshift4/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle:v9.0.1-15 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle:v10.15.0-43 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 RedHat openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-rhel9-operator:10.15.0-46 *
Kubernetes Ubuntu bionic *
Kubernetes Ubuntu trusty *
Kubernetes Ubuntu xenial *

References

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