CVE-2023-5408highCWE-269

CVE-2023-5408: high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11

Openshift: modification of node role labels

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.2epss 1.5%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
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