CVE-2021-25735

Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Sep 6, 2021
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Jan 21, 2021

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Description

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.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-372 Incomplete Internal State Distinction

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KubernetesKubernetes
  • 1.18.17 and earlierAffected
  • 1.19.9 and earlierAffected
  • 1.20.5 and earlierAffected

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