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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-3955: kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-3955: kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/29/2023
Created
08/29/2023
Added
08/29/2023
Modified
11/28/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift4-wincw-windows-machine-config-rhel8-operator
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift4-wincw-windows-machine-config-rhel9-operator

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