Detections
Analytics
CVE-2023-5408
high
Description
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
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7114006
https://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/pull/1736
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242173
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5408
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7479
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6842