GHSA-7fxm-f474-hf8wHighCVSS 8.8

Kubernetes privilege escalation vulnerability

Published
October 31, 2023
Last Modified
February 13, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products5

  • go/k8s.io/kubernetes:= 1.28.0
  • go/k8s.io/kubernetes:>= 1.27.0, < 1.27.5
  • go/k8s.io/kubernetes:>= 1.26.0, < 1.26.8
  • go/k8s.io/kubernetes:>= 1.25.0, < 1.25.13
  • go/k8s.io/kubernetes:< 1.24.17

🔗 References (16)