CVE-2023-2431
MEDIUM4.4EPSS 0.01%Kubelet vulnerable to bypass of seccomp profile enforcement in k8s.io/kubernetes
Published: 6/16/2023Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/kubernetesfrom 0, < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
- Go/k8s.io/kubernetesfrom 0, < 1.24.14
- Go/k8s.io/kubernetesfrom 0, < 1.24.14, >= 1.25.0, < 1.25.10, >= 1.26.0, < 1.26.5, >= 1.27.0, < 1.27.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xc8m-28vv-4pjc
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2431
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2431
- PATCHhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/118690
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117020
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117116
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117117
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117118
- WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117147
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/QHmx0HOQa10
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/43HDSKBKPSW53OW647B5ETHRWFFNHSRQ
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XBX4RL4UOC7JHWWYB2AJCKSUM7EG5Y5G
- WEBhttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1864