Bug 1356195 (CVE-2016-5392)

Summary: CVE-2016-5392 Kubernetes: disclosure of information in multi tenant environments via watch-cache list
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bleanhar, ccoleman, dmcphers, jialiu, jokerman, lmeyer, mmccomas, security-response-team, tdawson, yanpzhan
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The Kubernetes API server contains a watch cache that speeds up performance. Due to an input validation error OpenShift Enterprise may return data for other users and projects when queried by a user. An attacker with knowledge of other project names could use this vulnerability to view their information.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 00:53:45 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1355715, 1355915    
Bug Blocks: 1356225    

Description Kurt Seifried 2016-07-13 15:47:14 UTC
Yanping Zhang of Red Hat reports:

It is possible for one user to view another users data due to the kubernetes watch cache delivering the wrong data in a multi tenant environment.

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2016-07-13 15:47:22 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Yanping Zhang (Red Hat)

Comment 2 Yanping Zhang 2016-07-14 08:13:44 UTC
This issue has been fixed according to bug 1355915

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-07-14 15:57:14 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2

Via RHSA-2016:1427 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1427