Riskcovery

CVE-2020-8559

Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster

State
Published
Severity
6.4 Medium
Published
Jul 22, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Feb 3, 2020

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hkubernetes

Weaknesses

  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KubernetesKubernetes
  • 1.6Affected
  • 1.7Affected
  • 1.8Affected
  • 1.9Affected
  • 1.10Affected
  • 1.11Affected
  • 1.12Affected
  • 1.13Affected
  • 1.14Affected
  • 1.15Affected
  • 1.16 through 1.16.12Affected
  • 1.17 through 1.17.8Affected
  • 1.18 through 1.18.5Affected

References

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