Privilege Escalation Affecting k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy package, versions >=1.5.0 <1.5.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-K8SIOKUBERNETESPLUGINPKGADMISSIONSECURITYPODSECURITYPOLICY-174813
  • published1 Mar 2017
  • disclosed1 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-1000056  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-265  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy to version 1.5.5 or higher.

Overview

k8s.io/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 Base Scores

version 3.1