Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-8554
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products6
- azl3 kubernetes 1.28.3-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kubernetes 1.30.10-7 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 python-kubernetes 21.7.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 kubernetes 1.28.3-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 python-kubernetes 21.7.0-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 kubernetes 1.22.4-2 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 4 updates
4 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 1.28.3-2 |
| — | Security Update | 1.22.4-2 |
| — | Security Update | 1.28.3-1 |
| — | Security Update | 21.7.0-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-8554
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Kubernetes API server in all versions allow an attacker who is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field, to intercept traffic to that IP address. Additionally, an attacker who is able to patch the status (which is considered a privileged operation and should not typically be granted to users) of a LoadBalancer service can set the status.loadBalancer.ingress.ip to similar effect.
Published by Kubernetes, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-8554, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).