Privilege Escalation

kOps is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. The vulnerability is caused when running kOps with the GCP Provider in Gossip Mode, where Node service account credentials could be used by a container running in the cluster to retrieve sensitive information from the state storage bucket and escalate t...

PT-2023-3195 · Kops · Kops

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: kOps affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to errors in permission handling in the GCP Provider component of the kOps tool, which is used for automated management of Kubernetes virtual machine clusters. Exploitatio...

The vulnerability of the GCP Provider component of the automated Kubernetes cluster management system software allows a attacker to increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the GCP Provider component of the automated Kubernetes cluster management system software relates to permission handling errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to enhance their privileges by using a container that operates within a cluster, through...