CVE-2023-5056
Skupper-operator: privelege escalation via config map
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in the Skupper operator, which may permit a certain configuration to create a service account that would allow an authenticated attacker in the adjacent cluster to view deployments in all namespaces in the cluster. This issue permits unauthorized viewing of information outside of the user's purview.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · Service Interconnect 1 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1.4.3-5 – < *
Red Hat · Service Interconnect 1 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1.4.3-5 – < *
Red Hat · Service Interconnect 1 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1.4.3-6 – < *
Red Hat · Service Interconnect 1 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 2.4.3-3 – < *
Red Hat · Service Interconnect 1 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1.4.3-4 – < *
Red Hat · Service Interconnect 1 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1.4.3-6 – < *
References (3)
- RHSA-2023:6219 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5056 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2239517 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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