CVE-2019-15789

Microk8s Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVSS 8.8 HIGHEPSS 0.5%CWE-269

Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Canonical · MicroK8s

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References

https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/explicit-use-of-sudo-in-microk8s-cli/7605 https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/pull/590 https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-15789.html https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/microk8s-privilege-escalation