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CVE-2017-1000056

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

Kubernetes version 1.5.0-1.5.4 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation in the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.

Affected products

• Kubernetes: 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4

References

• https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43459
• https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43459

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