CVE-2023-5408

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11v4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream < *unaffected
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12v4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream < *unaffected
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13v4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream < *unaffected
Red HatRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream < *unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References