A vulnerability has been disclosed in which default access permissions for Persistent Volumes (PVs) created by the Kubernetes Azure cloud provider in versions 1.6.0 to 1.6.5 are set to "container" which exposes a URI that can be accessed without authentication on the public internet. Access to the URI string requires privileged access to the Kubernetes cluster or authenticated access to the Azure portal. Only Kubernetes 1.6.0-1.6.5 installations that have Persistent Volumes (PVs) actively provisioned through the Azure cloud provider are subject to the vulnerability. Clusters without PVs are unaffected. No other form of cluster storage is impacted. An individual with the full URI of an actively provisioned persistent volume can download the VHD file for that volume. It does not apply retroactively to volumes already deleted from the cluster. Upstream bug: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/47611 Upstream patch: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47605