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Kubernetes: CVE-2017-1000056: Privilege escalation vulnerability

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Kubernetes: CVE-2017-1000056: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2018
Modified
06/14/2018

Description

Kubernetes version 1.5.0-1.5.4 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation in the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.

Solution(s)

  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_5_4

References

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