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It has been found in openshift-enterprise version 3.11...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 13, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

It has been found in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and all openshift-enterprise versions from 4.1 to, including 4.3, that multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/mysql-apb.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 7, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Feb 13, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(14th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2020-1708

GHSA ID

GHSA-vfjr-r7c6-mq2h

Source code

No known source code

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