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CVE-2023-5408 A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift

Description

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 4.11 earliest → < 4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream 4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 4.12 earliest → < 4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream 4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 4.13 earliest → < 4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream 4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 4.14 earliest → < 4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream 4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream

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