VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-5408

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability1.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-11-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-269
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references