A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be
    able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include
    Windows nodes. (CVE-2023-3955)

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-8f8ddb2428 advisory.

    Updates to Kubernetes for F38 and F39. Security fixes for CVE-2023-3955 and CVE-2023-3676. Related update     for rawhide already in stable. Update for F37 is currently in COPR at     https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/buckaroogeek/copr-k8s-1.25/ due to golang blocker.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a3fcc0751f advisory.

    Updates to Kubernetes for F38 and F39. Security fixes for CVE-2023-3955 and CVE-2023-3676. Related update     for rawhide already in stable. Update for F37 is currently in COPR at     https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/buckaroogeek/copr-k8s-1.25/ due to golang blocker.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
417959	SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-q78c-gwqw-jcmc)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
417959	SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-q78c-gwqw-jcmc)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
185298	Fedora 39 : kubernetes (2023-8f8ddb2428)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
180458	Fedora 38 : kubernetes (2023-a3fcc0751f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2023-3955

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high