Bug 1954914 (CVE-2020-8562)

Summary: CVE-2020-8562 kubernetes: Bypass of Kubernetes API Server proxy TOCTOU
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sam Fowler <sfowler>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: admiller, bmontgom, eparis, jburrell, jcajka, joelsmith, nstielau, sponnaga
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A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where an authorized user may be able to access private networks on the Kubernetes control plane components. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can create or modify Node objects and proxy to them, or an untrusted user can create or modify StorageClass objects and access KubeControllerManager logs.
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Bug Depends On: 1956192, 1956193, 1956194, 1954980, 1954981, 1957061    
Bug Blocks: 1954915    

Description Sam Fowler 2021-04-29 04:25:56 UTC
A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where an authorized user may be able to access private networks on the Kubernetes control plane components. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can create or modify Node objects and proxy to them, or an untrusted user can create or modify StorageClass objects and access KubeControllerManager logs.

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2021-04-29 04:26:00 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Kubernetes Product Security Committee
Upstream: Javier Provecho (Telefonica)

Comment 7 Sam Fowler 2021-05-04 23:48:08 UTC
Created origin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1957061]

Comment 8 Sam Fowler 2021-07-14 05:03:10 UTC
Upstream issue:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/101493