CVE-2020-8559 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2020-8559

Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster

6.4 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges from a node compromise to a full cluster compromise.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Wouter ter Maat of Offensi

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Affected Vendor

Kubernetes

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Affected Software

Kubernetes

Vulnerable Versions:

1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18

Timeline

Official Publish: July 22nd, 2020

Last Modified: September 16th, 2024

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1204 User Execution

T1071 Application Layer Protocol

Command and Control

T1189 Drive-by Compromise

T1036 Masquerading

Defense Evasion