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CVE-2023-2728
published 2023-07-03

CVE-2023-2728: Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral…

PriorityP340medium6.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRHUINSUCHIHAN
EPSS
2.16%
79.9th percentile
Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

Affected

17 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiankubernetes< kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 (bookworm)kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 (bookworm)
k8s.iokubernetes>= 0 < 1.24.151.24.15
k8s.iokubernetes>= 1.25.0 < 1.25.111.25.11
k8s.iokubernetes>= 1.26.0 < 1.26.61.26.6
k8s.iokubernetes>= 1.27.0 < 1.27.31.27.3
kuberneteskubernetes<= 1.24.14
kuberneteskubernetes
kuberneteskubernetes
kuberneteskubernetes
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes1.25.0 – 1.25.10
kuberneteskubernetes1.26.0 – 1.26.5
kuberneteskubernetes1.27.0 – 1.27.2
kuberneteskubernetesv1.24.14 – <=

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat7.8HIGH
vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM
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