SCA: security update for github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes, k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-jp32-vmm6-3vf5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416479

Description

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

- Directory traversal vulnerability in Kubernetes, as used in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0, allows
attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted object type name, which is not properly handled before
passing it to etcd. (CVE-2015-5305)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jp32-vmm6-3vf5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416479

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: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.23

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5305

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5305

cwe: CWE-22