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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-5528: kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization in in-tree storage plugin leads to privilege escalation on Windows nodes

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-5528: kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization in in-tree storage plugin leads to privilege escalation on Windows nodes

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/14/2023
Created
12/08/2023
Added
12/07/2023
Modified
03/08/2024

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods and persistent volumes on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they are using an in-tree storage plugin for 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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