CVE-2021-25749

runAsNonRoot logic bypass for Windows containers

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: May 24, 2023
Updated: Jan 16, 2025
Reserved: Jan 21, 2021

Description

Windows workloads can run as ContainerAdministrator even when those workloads set the runAsNonRoot option to true.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	kubernetes

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KubernetesKubernetes	kubelet v1.22.0 - v1.22.13 to before v1.22.14Affected kubelet v1.23.0 - v1.23.10 to before v1.23.11Affected kubelet v1.24.0 - v1.24.4 to before v1.24.5Affected

References

https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/qqTZgulISzA

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