CVE-2023-5408Openshift: modification of node role labels
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 29 days later
· 29 days 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11
- unaffected v4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.stream – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
- unaffected v4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.stream – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
- unaffected v4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.stream – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
- unaffected v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.stream – < *
References
References7
- RHSA-2023:5006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2023:6130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2023:6842 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2023:7479 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5408 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2242173 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/openshift/kubernetes/pull/1736 (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-2023-57723 (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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