- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 33% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A security issue was discovered in aws-iam-authenticator where an allow-listed IAM identity may be able to modify their username and escalate privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By kubernetes
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 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 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 33% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
Kubernetes · aws-iam-authenticator
- affected v0.5.2 – < unspecified
- affected unspecified – < v0.5.9
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gosigs.k8s.io/aws-iam-authenticatorGHSA-pp3f-98qg-5g75 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: Prior to upgrading, this vulnerability can be mitigated by not using the {{AccessKeyID}} template value to construct usernames.
References
References2
- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/issues/472 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/dev/c/EMxHpU-1ZYs (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-2022-6388 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pp3f-98qg-5g75 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-2385)Record last updated .