CVE-2016-7075
An attacker could use this flaw to bypass authentication requirements by using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.57%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
It was found that Kubernetes as used by Openshift Enterprise 3 did not correctly validate X.509 client intermediate certificate host name fields. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass authentication requirements by using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.57% probability · 75th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-295
- Affected
- kubernetes/kubernetes · redhat/openshift
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 1.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2064Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7075Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/34517Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2064Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7075Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/34517Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.