It has been found in openshift-enterprise version 3.11...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 13, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 7, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Feb 13, 2023
It has been found in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and all openshift-enterprise versions from 4.1 to, including 4.3, that multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/mysql-apb.
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