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CVE-2023-5408

Date: November 1, 2023

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.

Language: Go

Severity Score

7.2

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5006

Url: https://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/pull/1736

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242173

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7479

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6842

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5408

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5408

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6130

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-5408

Severity Score

7.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.2
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

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CVE-2023-5408

Date: November 1, 2023

Language: Go

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Related Resources (9)

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CVSS v3.1

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