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CVE-2023-3955

Published: Oct 31, 2023

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Kubernetes

kubelet

affected
v1.28.0
affected
v1.27.0 - <= v1.27.4
affected
v1.26.0 - <= v1.26.7
affected
v1.25.0 - <= v1.25.12
unaffected
v1.28.1

+5 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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