CVE-2018-1002105

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in OpenShift Container Platform which allows for compromise of pods running co-located on a compute node. This access could include access to all secrets, pods, environment variables, running pod/container processes, and persistent volumes, including in privileged containers.

Statement

In versions 3.6 and higher of OpenShift Container Platform, this vulnerability allows cluster-admin level access to any API hosted by an aggregated API server. This includes the ‘service catalog’ API which is installed by default in 3.7 and later. Cluster-admin level access to the service catalog allows creation of brokered services by an unauthenticated user with escalated privileges in any namespace and on any node. This could lead to an attacker being allowed to deploy malicious code, or alter existing services.

Mitigation

See the vulnerability article for mitigation procedures.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v3 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score9.89.89.8
Attack VectorNetworkNetworkNetwork
Attack ComplexityLowLowLow
Privileges RequiredNoneNoneNone
User InteractionNoneNoneNone
ScopeUnchangedUnchangedUnchanged
ConfidentialityHighHighHigh
Integrity ImpactHighHighHigh
Availability ImpactHighHighHigh

Vector

Red Hat: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

cve.org: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

Access Control

Technical Impact: Bypass Protection Mechanism

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Kubernetes Product Security Team for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Darren Shepherd as the original reporter.

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