Privilege Escalation Affecting github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy package, versions >=1.5.0 <1.5.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMKUBERNETESKUBERNETESPLUGINPKGADMISSIONSECURITYPODSECURITYPOLICY-174812
  • published 1 Mar 2017
  • disclosed 1 Mar 2017
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy to version 1.5.5 or higher.

Overview

github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy is a PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin for Kubernetes.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High