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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-8559: Open Redirect

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 22, 2020
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges from a node compromise to a full cluster compromise.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-k3s
Title
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