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CVE-2023-5408

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CVE-2023-5408

Published: Nov 2, 2023

Modified: Nov 7, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.2

HIGH

Description

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.

VendorProductVersions

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11

unaffected
v4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12

unaffected
v4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13

unaffected
v4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14

unaffected
v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream - < *

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

RHSA-2023:5006
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2023:6130
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2023:6842
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2023:7479
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHBZ#2242173
issue-tracking
x_refsource_REDHAT

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