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SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-g42g-737j-qx6j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414835

Description

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

 - A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node updates to bypass a Validating
 Admission Webhook. Clusters are only affected by this vulnerability if they run a Validating Admission
 Webhook for Nodes that denies admission based at least partially on the old state of the Node object.
 Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields. (CVE-2021-25735)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g42g-737j-qx6j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 414835

Version: Revision 1.6

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25735

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:N/I:H/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25735