CVE-2023-3893 (GCVE-0-2023-3893)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-03 17:34
Modified
2025-02-13 17:02
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Summary
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes running kubernetes-csi-proxy may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes running kubernetes-csi-proxy.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes csi-proxy Version: v2.0.0-alpha.0
Version: 0   ≤ v1.1.2
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