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RHSA-2023:4885: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.0.2 security update
The components for Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.0.2 are now available. This product release includes bug fixes and security updates for the following packages: windows-machine-config-operator and windows-machine-config-operator-bundle. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2023-3676: A vulnerability was found in Kubernetes. This flaw allows a user who can create pods on Windows nodes to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes.
- CVE-2023-3955: A vulnerability was found in Kubernetes. This flaw allows a user who can create pods on Windows nodes to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes.
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Issued:
2023-08-30
Updated:
2023-08-30
RHSA-2023:4885 - Security Advisory
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Synopsis
Important: Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.0.2 security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
The components for Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.0.2 are now available. This product release includes bug fixes and security updates for the following packages: windows-machine-config-operator and windows-machine-config-operator-bundle.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers allows you to deploy Windows container workloads running on Windows Server containers.
Security Fix(es):
- kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-3676)
- kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-3955)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Affected Products
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 9 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 2227126 - CVE-2023-3676 kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation
- BZ - 2227128 - CVE-2023-3955 kubernetes: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation
x86_64
openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-operator-bundle@sha256:406e16a97699ffcfe37d9343c1008ad385f76566c07104b3500b01923e7b2e62
openshift4-wincw/windows-machine-config-rhel9-operator@sha256:d62c040e75416b749852184604f7475976e57b2b6f1b6c37a40f38ab74d4888e
The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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