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CVE-2020-1708

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-266

Description

It has been found in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and all openshift-enterprise versions from 4.1 to, including 4.3, that multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/mysql-apb.

Affected products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0617
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0681
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0694
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1708
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0617
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0681
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0694
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1708

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