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GHSA-2FVJ-QG75-5FHX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:13 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:13

Details

Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

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CVE-2019-15789 (GCVE-0-2019-15789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-08 01:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 21:07

Title

Microk8s Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

canonical

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/pull/590	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/microk8s-p…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/explicit-use-of-s…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Canonical	MicroK8s	Affected: 1.15 , < 1.15.3 (custom)

Date Public

2019-08-09 00:00

Credits

Denis Andzakovic

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GHSA-2FVJ-QG75-5FHX

CVE-2019-15789 (GCVE-0-2019-15789)

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