A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes where BUILTIN\Users may be able to read container logs and NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes where BUILTIN\Users may be able     to read container logs and NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.
    (CVE-2024-5321)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0807 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2024-5321:
    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes where BUILTIN\Usersmay be able     to read container logs and NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Usersmay be able to modify container logs.

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

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

An update of the kubernetes package has been released.

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

  - A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes where BUILTIN\Users may be able
    to read container logs and NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.
    (CVE-2024-5321)

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-30f39c25ae advisory.

    Update to v1.29.7 for FC40.

    Resolves CVE-2024-5321: Incorrect permissions on Windows containers logs.

    Additional bug and regression fixes from upstream.

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255461	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-5321	Nessus	Misc.	medium
239765	TencentOS Server 4: kubernetes (TSSA-2024:0807)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
233175	Photon OS 5.0: Kubernetes PHSA-2025-5.0-0487	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
232976	Photon OS 4.0: Kubernetes PHSA-2025-4.0-0769	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
412367	SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-82m2-cv7p-4m75)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
412367	SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-82m2-cv7p-4m75)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
204761	Fedora 40 : kubernetes (2024-30f39c25ae)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2024-5321

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Tenable Plugins

medium

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medium