Riskcovery

CVE-2023-3676

Kubernetes - Windows nodes - Insufficient input sanitization leads to privilege escalation

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Oct 31, 2023
Updated
Feb 27, 2025
Reserved
Jul 14, 2023

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Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kubeletKubernetes
  • v1.28.0Affected
  • v1.27.0 through v1.27.4Affected
  • v1.26.0 through v1.26.7Affected
  • v1.25.0 through v1.25.12Affected
  • v1.28.1Not affected
  • v1.27.5Not affected
  • v1.26.8Not affected
  • v1.25.13Not affected
  • v1.24.17Not affected
  • v1.24.16 and earlierAffected

References

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