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SCA: security update for k8s.io/apimachinery, k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-33c5-9fx5-fvjm)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409242

Description

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

 - The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6
 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to
 escalate privileges from a node compromise to a full cluster compromise. (CVE-2020-8559)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-33c5-9fx5-fvjm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409242

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.96

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8559

cwe: CWE-601