Vulnerability CVE-2021-25735


Published: 2021-09-06

Description:
A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook. Clusters are only affected by this vulnerability if they run a Validating Admission Webhook for Nodes that denies admission based at least partially on the old state of the Node object. Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields.

Type:

CWE-863

(Incorrect Authorization)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.5/10
4.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Kubernetes -> Kubernetes 

 References:
https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/FKAGqT4jx9Y
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/100096

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