VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-8567

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM

EPSS probability1.49%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2021-01-21

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Description

Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver Vault Plugin prior to v0.0.6, Azure Plugin prior to v0.0.10, and GCP Plugin prior to v0.2.0 allow an attacker who can create specially-crafted SecretProviderClass objects to write to arbitrary file paths on the host filesystem, including /var/lib/kubelet/pods.

Weakness classification

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-24: Path Traversal: '../filedir'

Primary references

jordan@liggitt.net — Patch, Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.net — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory