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CVE-2015-5305 (GCVE-0-2015-5305)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-06 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in Kubernetes, as used in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0, allows attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted object type name, which is not properly handled before passing it to etcd.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1273969 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1945 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2015-10-27 00:00
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