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Oracle Linux: CVE-2023-2728: ELSA-2023-12561: kubernetes security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jul 3, 2023
Added
May 21, 2024
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

Solutions

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