CVE-2023-2728

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    CVE-2023-2728

    Published: 3 Jul 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/06/3, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/2xxx/CVE-2023-2728.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2728, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230803-0004/, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/118640, https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/vPWYJ_L84m8

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v0.27.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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