CVE-2023-2431

medium

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7009655

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XBX4RL4UOC7JHWWYB2AJCKSUM7EG5Y5G/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/43HDSKBKPSW53OW647B5ETHRWFFNHSRQ/

https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/QHmx0HOQa10

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/118690

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-06-16

Updated: 2023-07-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium