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Kubernetes: CVE-2018-1000400: Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability

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Kubernetes: CVE-2018-1000400: Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/18/2018
Created
05/15/2019
Added
05/14/2019
Modified
05/14/2019

Description

Kubernetes CRI-O version prior to 1.9 contains a Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability in the handling of ambient capabilities that can result in containers running with elevated privileges, allowing users abilities they should not have. This attack appears to be exploitable via container execution. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.9.

Solution(s)

  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_9_0

References

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