CVE-2019-15789

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-15789
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-08 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-10-16 16:29:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Canonical Microk8s All All All All
Application Canonical Microk8s All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2019-15789 | Ubuntu CONFIRM people.canonical.com Vendor Advisory
Harden MicroK8s by ktsakalozos · Pull Request #590 · ubuntu/microk8s · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
Explicit use of sudo in MicroK8s CLI - microk8s - Discuss Kubernetes CONFIRM discuss.kubernetes.io Third Party Advisory
MicroK8s - Privilege Escalation (CVE-2019-15789) CONFIRM pulsesecurity.co.nz Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Denis Andzakovic

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