Vulnerability · Published Feb 7, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-1708

High 7.0

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in openshift/mysql-apb from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 21% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.0High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 79.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

It has been found in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and all openshift-enterprise versions from 4.1 to, including 4.3, that multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/mysql-apb.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	openshift/mysql-apb	openshift-enterprise version 3.11from openshift-enterprise version 4.1 to, including 4.3

Weakness: CWE-266 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1708 x_refsource_CONFIRM
RHSA-2020:0681 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2020:0617 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2020:0694 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT