CVE-2021-25741

Summary

CVECVE-2021-25741
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-20 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-11-30 22:42:00 UTC
DescriptionA security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to create a container with subpath volume mounts to access files & directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-552

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kubernetes Kubernetes All All All All
Application Kubernetes Kubernetes All All All All
Application Kubernetes Kubernetes All All All All
Application Kubernetes Kubernetes All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2021-25741 Kubernetes Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
CVE-2021-25741: Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access · Issue #104980 · kubernetes/kubernetes · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
[Security Advisory] CVE-2021-25741: Symlink Exchange Can Allow Host Filesystem Access MLIST groups.google.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: Fabricio Voznika & Mark Wolters

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159556 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for olcne (ELSA-2021-9526)
  • 159558 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for olcne istio istio kubernetes (ELSA-2021-9546)
  • 180885 Debian Security Update for kubernetes (CVE-2021-25741)
  • 239659 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.524 (RHSA-2021:3646)
  • 239660 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.46 (RHSA-2021:3642)
  • 239661 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.32 packages and (RHSA-2021:3635)
  • 239662 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.13 (RHSA-2021:3631)
  • 375921 Kubernetes Improper Authorization Vulnerability
  • 6140357 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kubernetes (GHSA-f5f7-6478-qm6p)
  • 770079 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021:3642)
  • 770080 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 Security Update (RHSA-2021:3631)
  • 770081 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 Security Update (RHSA-2021:3635)
  • 770089 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 Security Update (RHSA-2021-3631)
  • 770097 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 Security Update (RHSA-2021-3635)
  • 770114 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021-3642)
  • 900356 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes (6285)
  • 900844 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes-1.19.13 (5912)
  • 900846 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes-1.21.1 (5915)
  • 900847 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes-1.19.11 (5911)
  • 900848 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes-1.21.2 (5916)
  • 900849 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes-1.20.7 (5913)
  • 900851 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes-1.20.9 (5914)
  • 906026 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kubernetes (6285-1)
  • 980239 Go (go) Security Update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-f5f7-6478-qm6p)
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