CVE-2019-15789 - OpenCVE

Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Canonical	Microk8s

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:canonical:microk8s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/explicit-use-of-sudo-in-microk8s-cli/7605
https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/pull/590
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-15789.html
https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/microk8s-privilege-escalation

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2020-04-08T01:00:26.136140Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T21:07:28.961Z

Reserved: 2019-08-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-15789

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-04-08T01:15:11.857

Modified: 2020-10-16T16:29:13.087

Link: CVE-2019-15789

Redhat

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