GO-2023-2170
Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / GO-2023-2170
Summary: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation in k8s.io/kubernetes and k8s.io/mount-utils
Details: 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.
References: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q78c-gwqw-jcmc, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/38c97fa67ed35f36e730856728c9e3807f63546a, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/50334505cd27cbe7cf71865388f25a00e29b2596, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/7da6d72c05dffb3b87e62e2bc8c3228ea12ba1b9, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/b7547e28f898af37aa2f1107a49111f963250fe6, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/c4e17abb04728e3a3f9bb26e727b0f978df20ec9, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/119595, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120128, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120134, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120135, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120136, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120137, https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120138, https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/JrX4bb7d83E
Affected packages
Package
Name: k8s.io/kubernetes
Purl: pkg:golang/k8s.io/kubernetes
Affected ranges
Type: SEMVER
Events:
