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CVE-2022-3172
Kubernetes - API server - Aggregated API server can cause clients to be redirected (SSRF)
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that allows an aggregated API server to redirect client traffic to any URL. This could lead to the client performing unexpected actions as well as forwarding the client's API server credentials to third parties.
Timeline
ID reserved
By kubernetes
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months 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 | Medium5.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
- affected v1.25.0
- affected v1.24.0 – ≤ v1.24.4
- affected v1.23.0 – ≤ v1.23.10
- affected v1.22.0 – ≤ v1.22.13
- unaffected v1.25.1
- unaffected v1.24.5
- unaffected v1.23.11
- unaffected v1.22.14
- affected ≤ v1.21.14
References
References3
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/112513 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-security-announce/c/_aLzYMpPRak (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231221-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_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-2022-42593 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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