CVE-2020-8553 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic and which has a hyphenated namespace or secret name.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00523.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Kubernetes Subscribe	Ingress-nginx Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:ingress-nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-4162	The Kubernetes ingress-nginx component prior to version 0.28.0 allows a user with the ability to create namespaces and to read and create ingress objects to overwrite the password file of another ingress which uses nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type: basic and which has a hyphenated namespace or secret name.
Github GHSA	GHSA-hhpm-74pm-hf35	ingress-nginx component for Kubernetes allows file overwrite

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/issues/5126

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: kubernetes

Published: 2020-07-29T14:53:32

Updated: 2024-08-04T10:03:46.369Z

Reserved: 2020-02-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-8553

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-29T15:15:13.450

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:39:01.253

Link: CVE-2020-8553

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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