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CVE-2020-8554 (GCVE-0-2020-8554)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-21 17:09 – Updated: 2026-06-01 21:44
VLAI
Title
Kubernetes man in the middle using LoadBalancer or ExternalIPs
Summary
Kubernetes API server in all versions allow an attacker who is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field, to intercept traffic to that IP address. Additionally, an attacker who is able to patch the status (which is considered a privileged operation and should not typically be granted to users) of a LoadBalancer service can set the status.loadBalancer.ingress.ip to similar effect.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Kubernetes Kubernetes Affected: 0 , < * (semver)
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Date Public
2020-12-07 00:00
Credits
Etienne Champetier (@champtar) of Anevia
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.