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1 vulnerability found for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 by Red Hat

CVE-2023-5408 (GCVE-0-2023-5408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-02 02:55
Modified
2025-11-07 09:40
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 Unaffected: v4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.11::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Unaffected: v4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.12::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 Unaffected: v4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.13::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 Unaffected: v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.14::el9
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