CVE-2019-15789

Microk8s Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Apr 8, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Aug 29, 2019

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MicroK8sCanonical	1.15 to before 1.15.3Affected

References

https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/pull/590
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-15789.html
https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/microk8s-privilege-escalation
https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/explicit-use-of-sudo-in-microk8s-cli/7605

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