CVE-2023-37917: Privilege Escalation in kubepi

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-07-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

KubePi is an opensource kubernetes management panel. A normal user has permission to create/update users, they can become admin by editing the `isadmin` value in the request. As a result any user may take administrative control of KubePi. This issue has been addressed in version 1.6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

1Panel-dev KubePi: before 1.6.5 — fixed in 1.6.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: 1Panel-dev KubePi 1.6.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/1Panel-dev/KubePi/security/advisories/GHSA-757p-vx43-fp9r
https://github.com/1Panel-dev/KubePi/security/advisories/GHSA-757p-vx43-fp9r

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