CVE-2026-105223

maclof kubernetes-client 0.17.0 before 0.32.0 Disabled TLS Certificate Verification

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Oct 5, 2026
Updated
Oct 27, 2026
Reserved
Oct 4, 2026

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Description

maclof kubernetes-client 0.17.0 before 0.32.0 disables TLS certificate verification in parseKubeconfig() and parseKubeconfigFile() when a kubeconfig lacks certificate-authority-data, ignoring insecure-skip-tls-verify. On-path attackers can impersonate the Kubernetes API server to capture Bearer tokens or Basic credentials and tamper with WebSocket or REST API traffic.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.1 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kubernetes-clientmaclof
  • 0.17.0 to before 0.32.0Affected

References

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