CVE-2015-5222

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-08-19
CWE:
CWE-862
Bugzilla:
1255120: CVE-2015-5222 OpenShift3: Exec operations should be forbidden to privileged pods such as builder pods
An improper permission check issue was discovered in the server admission control component in OpenShift. A user with build permissions could use this flaw to execute arbitrary shell commands on a build pod with the privileges of the root user.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5222 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 (openshift) RHSA-2015:1650 2015-08-20

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 Security Affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Cesar Wong of the Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Team.

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