GHSA-xc8m-28vv-4pjc

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    GHSA-xc8m-28vv-4pjc

    Published: 16 Jun 2023Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Kubelet vulnerable to bypass of seccomp profile enforcement

    Details: A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2431, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/118690, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117020, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117116, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117117, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117118, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117147, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes, https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/QHmx0HOQa10, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/43HDSKBKPSW53OW647B5ETHRWFFNHSRQ, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XBX4RL4UOC7JHWWYB2AJCKSUM7EG5Y5G, https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1864

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: k8s.io/kubernetes

    Purl: pkg:golang/k8s.io/kubernetes

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.24.14

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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