CVE-2017-1000056
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
Kubernetes version 1.5.0-1.5.4 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation in the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.5.5+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.5.5+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.5.5+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.5.5+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.5.5+dfsg-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | k8s.io/kubernetes | >=1.5.0,<1.5.5 | 1.5.5 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubernetes | kubernetes | 1.5.0 | |
| kubernetes | kubernetes | 1.5.1 | |
| kubernetes | kubernetes | 1.5.2 | |
| kubernetes | kubernetes | 1.5.3 | |
| kubernetes | kubernetes | 1.5.4 | |
References
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43459
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000056
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/7fef0a4f6a44ea36f166c39fdade5324eff2dd5e
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2jx2-76rc-2v7v
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000056
CWEs
CWE-862
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.