CVE-2015-5305

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-10-27
CWE:
CWE-22
Bugzilla:
1273969: CVE-2015-5305 Kubernetes: Missing name validation allows path traversal in etcd
Kubernetes fails to validate object name types before passing the data to etcd. As the etcd service generates keys based on the object name type this can lead to a directory path traversal.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5305 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 (openshift) RHSA-2015:1945 2015-10-27

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 kubernetes Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Jordan Liggitt of Red Hat.

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