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CVE-2018-18264 (GCVE-0-2018-18264)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-03 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:08
VLAI
Summary
Kubernetes Dashboard before 1.10.1 allows attackers to bypass authentication and use Dashboard's Service Account for reading secrets within the cluster.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2019-01-02 00:00
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