Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access (Kubernetes Kubernetes)

CVE-2021-25741
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 7.96 % · percentile 95 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
kubernetes
NVD status
Modified

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to create a container with subpath volume mounts to access files & directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-552 — Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hkubernetes
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · jordan@liggitt.net (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Kubernetes · Kubernetesaffected unspecified ≤ 1.19.14 ; affected unspecified ≤ 1.20.10 ; affected unspecified ≤ 1.21.4 ; affected unspecified ≤ 1.22.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD