CVE-2017-1000056
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.26%Kubernetes Privilege Escalation in k8s.io/kubernetes
Published: 5/12/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Kubernetes version 1.5.0-1.5.4 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation in the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/kubernetesfrom 0, < 1.5.5+dfsg-1
- Go/k8s.io/kubernetes>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.5
- Go/k8s.io/kubernetes>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2jx2-76rc-2v7v
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000056
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000056
- PATCHhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/7fef0a4f6a44ea36f166c39fdade5324eff2dd5e
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43459