CVE-2021-25735

Summary

CVECVE-2021-25735
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-06 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-06-26 19:16:00 UTC
DescriptionA security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook. Clusters are only affected by this vulnerability if they run a Validating Admission Webhook for Nodes that denies admission based at least partially on the old state of the Node object. Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kubernetes Kubernetes All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields MISC groups.google.com
CVE-2021-25735: Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields · Issue #100096 · kubernetes/kubernetes · GitHub MISC github.com
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: Rogerio Bastos & Ari Lima

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 183848 Debian Security Update for kubernetes (CVE-2021-25735)
  • 239525 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.2 (RHSA-2021:2437)
  • 377846 Kubernetes Validating Admission Webhook Vulnerability
  • 501872 Alpine Linux Security Update for k3s
  • 770074 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 Security Update (RHSA-2021:2437)
  • 770111 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 Security Update (RHSA-2021-2437)
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