Alpine: multiple k3s packages: security update to 1.27.3-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400086

Description

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

- Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the
ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a
service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes
clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-
mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers. (CVE-2023-2728)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400086

Version: Revision 1.36

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.56

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2728

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2728

Detections

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