CVE-2020-8559

Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster

Published Jul 22, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6.4 Medium EPSS 6.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges from a node compromise to a full cluster compromise.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-33c5-9fx5-fvjm Privilege Escalation in Kubernetes
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
kubernetes
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 5:58 PM
Reserved
Feb 3, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 22, 2020, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:26 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jul 15, 2020, 12:00 AM