#VU82607 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - CVE-2023-5408 

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#VU82607 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - CVE-2023-5408

Published: October 31, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82607
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5408
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Software vendor:
Red Hat Inc.

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A local user can modify the node role label and steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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