PT-2023-5676 · Red Hat · Openshift

Derek Carr + 1 · CVE-2023-5408 · Published 2023-10-04 · Updated 2024-01-21

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenShift (affected versions not specified)

Description A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the Kubernetes API server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

AZL-31786

AZL-34898

BDU:2023-06344

CVE-2023-5408

Affected Products

Openshift

References · 16

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242173 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5408 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5408 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5408 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5006 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7479 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-31786 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-06344 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6842 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-34898 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/pull/1736 · Note
• https://twitter.com/cracbot/status/1720381868598513796 · Twitter Post
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-5408 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/61423 · Telegram Post