Symlink Attack Affecting github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet package, versions >=1.3.0 <1.7.14 >=1.8.0 <1.8.9 >=1.9.0 <1.9.4


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (11th percentile)
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NVD
5.6 medium
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Red Hat
7.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMKUBERNETESKUBERNETESPKGKUBELET-2826200
  • published 17 May 2022
  • disclosed 17 May 2022
  • credit Joel Smith of Red Hat

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet to version 1.7.14, 1.8.9, 1.9.4 or higher.

Overview

github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet is a kubelet package.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack due to a symlink race. Every synchronization iteration, the Atomic Writer is looking for files that shouldn't be in a volume, and when it finds it is added to a list. When the search is done it deletes the files in the list. Because the deletion doesn't occur during the finding of the file, a malicious container can set up conditions to change the file selected for deletion with a symlink leading to a different file, which will be deleted.