August Linux Patch Wednesday

AugustLinux Patch Wednesday. I’m late with this LPW since I was improving the generation of LPW bulletin lists and the operation of Vulristics. In August, Linux vendors addressed 867 vulnerabilities, nearly twice July’s total, including 455 in the Linux Kernel. One vulnerability is confirmed...

A flaw was found in CRI-O in the way it set kernel options for a pod. This issue allows anyone with rights to deploy a pod on a Kubernetes cluster that uses the CRI-O runtime to achieve a container escape and arbitrary code execution as root on the cluster node, where the malicious pod was deployed.

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KubeGuard: LLM-Assisted Kubernetes Hardening Via Configuration Files and Runtime Logs Analysis

The widespread adoption of Kubernetes K8s for orchestrating cloud-native applications has introduced significant security challenges, such as misconfigured resources and overly permissive configurations. Failing to address these issues can result in unauthorized access, privilege escalation, and...

Directory Traversal

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the podman kube play command. An attacker can cause sensitive data corruption and system crashes by supplying a malicious Kubernetes YAML file that results in overwriting critical host files. The attacker only...

Directory Traversal

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the podman kube play command. An attacker can cause sensitive data corruption and system crashes by supplying a malicious Kubernetes YAML file that results in overwriting critical host files. The attacker only...

Directory Traversal

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the podman kube play command. An attacker can cause sensitive data corruption and system crashes by supplying a malicious Kubernetes YAML file that results in overwriting critical host files. The attacker only...

Directory Traversal

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the podman kube play command. An attacker can cause sensitive data corruption and system crashes by supplying a malicious Kubernetes YAML file that results in overwriting critical host files. The attacker only...

This CVE only affects Kubernetes clusters that utilize the in-tree gitRepo volume to clone git repositories from other pods within the same node. Since the in-tree gitRepo volume feature has been deprecated and will not receive security updates upstream, any cluster still using this feature remains vulnerable.

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-7010

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes ECK versions prior to 1.1.0 generate passwords using a weak random number generator. If an attacker is able to determine when the...

CVE-2025-9276 Cockroach Labs cockroach-k8s-request-cert Empty Root Password Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Cockroach Labs cockroach-k8s-request-cert Empty Root Password Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow remote attackers to bypass authentication on systems that use the affected version of the Cockroach Labs cockroach-k8s-request-cert container image. The specific flaw...

CVE-2025-9276

CVE-2025-9276 affects Cockroach Labs “cockroach-k8s-request-cert” container image. The flaw is in the system shadow file configuration, with a blank root password, enabling an authentication bypass over the network. Documented impact is high (authentication bypass; potential full access) and CVSS...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1767

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - This CVE only affects Kubernetes clusters that utilize the in-tree gitRepo volume to clone git repositories from other pods within the same node. Since the...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Concert Software.

Summary Multiple vulnerabilities were addressed in IBM Concert Software version 2.0.0 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2015-5305 DESCRIPTION: Directory traversal vulnerability in Kubernetes, as used in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0, allows attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted...

CVE-2025-58061

OpenEBS Local PV RawFile allows dynamic deployment of Stateful Persistent Node-Local Volumes & Filesystems for Kubernetes. Prior to version 0.10.0, persistent volume data is world readable and that would allow non-privileged users to access sensitive data such as databases of k8s workload. The...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-8552

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-2727

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers. Kubernetes clusters are only...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-9693

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.0 prior to 17.3.7, starting from 17.4 prior to 17.4.4, and starting from 17.5...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-3177

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccou...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-13318

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A vulnerability was discovered in GitLab versions before 13.0.12, 13.1.10, 13.2.8 and 13.3.4. GitLabs EKS integration was vulnerable to a cross-account assume...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-8557

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod which writes to its own...