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CVE-2023-3676
Kubernetes - Windows nodes - Insufficient input sanitization leads to privilege escalation
High8.8EPSS 13.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- kubernetes
Description
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubernetesCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.2% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected v1.28.0
- affected v1.27.0 – ≤ v1.27.4
- affected v1.26.0 – ≤ v1.26.7
- affected v1.25.0 – ≤ v1.25.12
- unaffected v1.28.1
- unaffected v1.27.5
- unaffected v1.26.8
- unaffected v1.25.13
- unaffected v1.24.17
- affected ≤ v1.24.16
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gok8s.io/kubernetesGHSA-7fxm-f474-hf8w (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/119339 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/d_fvHZ9a5zc (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0007/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-7fxm-f474-hf8w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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