CVE detail

CVE-2023-5408 — CVE-2023-5408

Published 2023-11-02 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor redhat · Product openshift_container_platform · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.2

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0111

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

63.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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