Medium severity · published May 27, 2021
CVE-2020-1701
A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler
6.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler. An attacker with access to create VMs could attach any secret within their namespace, allowing them to read the contents of that secret.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 55% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KU
Kubevirt · Kubevirt
before 0.26.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1701
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1701
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792092
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