CVE-2023-2728

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Published 2023-07-03 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.20.5+really1.20.2-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.20.5+really1.20.2-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.20.5+really1.20.2-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.20.5+really1.20.2-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.20.5+really1.20.2-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`>=1.27.0,<1.27.3`	`1.27.3`
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`>=1.26.0,<1.26.6`	`1.26.6`
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`>=1.25.0,<1.25.11`	`1.25.11`
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`<1.24.15`	`1.24.15`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.