CVE-2021-25749 (GCVE-0-2021-25749)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-24 00:00
Modified
2025-01-16 21:21
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Summary
Windows workloads can run as ContainerAdministrator even when those workloads set the runAsNonRoot option to true.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes Kubernetes Version: kubelet v1.22.0 - v1.22.13   < v1.22.14
Version: kubelet v1.23.0 - v1.23.10   < v1.23.11
Version: kubelet v1.24.0 - v1.24.4   < v1.24.5
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