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UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3162 (CVE-2022-3162)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-03-01 19:15 – Updated: 2025-07-14 04:52 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-08-28

Details

Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. There are 2+ CustomResourceDefinitions sharing the same API group 2. Users have cluster-wide list or watch authorization on one of those custom resources. 3. The same users are not authorized to read another custom resource in the same API group.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

6.5 (Medium)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3162	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3162	REPORT

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CVE-2022-3162 (GCVE-0-2022-3162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-01 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-07 18:35

Title

Unauthorized read of Custom Resources

Summary

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-07 18:34 UTC

CWE

CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal

Assigner

kubernetes mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-a…
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/113756
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023051…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Kubernetes	Kubernetes	Affected: unspecified , ≤ v1.25.3 (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ v1.24.7 (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ v1.23.13 (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ v1.22.15 (custom)

Date Public

2022-11-10 00:00

Credits

Richard Turnbull of NCC Group

Show details on NVD website

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