CVE-2023-5408 (GCVE-0-2023-5408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-02 02:55 – Updated: 2025-11-07 09:40
VLAI?
Title
Openshift: modification of node role labels
Summary
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 |
Unaffected:
v4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream , < *
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cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4.11::el8 |
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Credits
This issue was discovered by Derek Carr (Red Hat) and Mrunal Patel (Red Hat).
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