vulnerability
Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-3955: kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Aug 29, 2023 | Aug 29, 2023 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 29, 2023
Added
Aug 29, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
Description
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user
that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin
privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they
include Windows nodes.
Solutions
linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift4-wincw-windows-machine-config-rhel8-operatorlinuxrpm-upgrade-openshift4-wincw-windows-machine-config-rhel9-operator
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