Denial of service in Kubernetes - CVE-2017-1002102

 

Denial of service in Kubernetes - CVE-2017-1002102

Published: March 16, 2018 / Updated: March 16, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11122
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1002102
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows an adjacent authenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper atomic writer volume handling when using a container with secret, configMap, projected, or downwardAPI volume. An adjacent attacker can delete arbitrary files and directories and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

Kubernetes
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Fedora
origin

How to mitigate CVE-2017-1002102

Update to versions 1.10.0-beta.3 or 1.10.0-beta.4.

origin - update to 3.9.0-1.fc28

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