Bug 1297910 (CVE-2016-1905)

Summary: CVE-2016-1905 Kubernetes api server: patch operation should use patched object to check admission control
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bleanhar, carnil, ccoleman, dma, dmcphers, jchaloup, jialiu, jkeck, jokerman, kseifried, lmeyer, mmccomas, slong
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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An authorization flaw was discovered in Kubernetes; the API server did not properly check user permissions when handling certain requests. An authenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to gain additional access to resources such as RAM and disk space.
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Last Closed: 2016-03-22 04:37:05 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1297917, 1297918    
Bug Blocks: 1297922, 1298133    

Description Kurt Seifried 2016-01-12 18:37:03 UTC
Kubernetes api server: patch operation should use patched object to check 
admission control

External reference:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/19479

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2016-01-13 18:38:31 UTC
*** Bug 1298116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2016-01-26 19:20:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL 7 Version of OpenShift Enterprise 3.1

Via RHSA-2016:0070 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0070

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-03 16:22:54 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL 7 Version of OpenShift Enterprise 3.0

Via RHSA-2016:0351 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0351