A flaw was found in the OpenShift Installer before version v0.9.0-master.0.20210125200451-95101da940b0. During installation of OpenShift Container Platform 4 clusters, bootstrap nodes are provisioned with anonymous authentication enabled on kubelet port 10250. A remote attacker able to reach this port during installation can make unauthenticated `/exec` requests to execute arbitrary commands within running containers. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-02-23T17:45:25

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:30:07.622Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20198

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-02-23T18:15:13.287

Modified: 2021-02-27T03:49:32.887

Link: CVE-2021-20198

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-02-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20198 - Bugzilla