Vulnerability · Published Jun 2, 2021 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-35514

High 7.0

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in openshift/machine-config-operator. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.0High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An insecure modification flaw in the /etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig file was found in OpenShift. This flaw allows an attacker with access to a running container which mounts /etc/kubernetes or has local access to the node, to copy this kubeconfig file and attempt to add their own node to the OpenShift cluster. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. This flaw affects versions before openshift4/ose-machine-config-operator v4.7.0-202105111858.p0.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	openshift/machine-config-operator	Unspecified

Weakness: CWE-266

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914714 x_refsource_MISC