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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2023-2431

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.26%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.26% probability · 17th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-1287
Affected
kubernetes/kubernetes · fedoraproject/fedora
Source
jordan@liggitt.net

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.