- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 29% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver versions v0.0.15 and v0.0.16 allow an attacker who can modify a SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes paths under var/lib/kubelet/pods that contain other Kubernetes Secrets.
Timeline
ID reserved
By kubernetes
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubernetesCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
Kubernetes · Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver
- affected Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver v0.0.15
- affected Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver v0.0.16
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gosigs.k8s.io/secrets-store-csi-driverGHSA-5cgx-vhfp-6cf9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-secrets-store-csi-driver/c/Cb9cvymTzl4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver/issues/378 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-0837 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5cgx-vhfp-6cf9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-8568)Record last updated .