CVE-2020-8559
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2020
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster
The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges from a node compromise to a full cluster compromise.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Kubernetes
- Vendor
- Kubernetes
- Product
- Kubernetes
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
Unknown
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.9 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.10 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.11 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.12 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.13 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.14 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.15 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.16 | affected | custom | Unavailable | 1.16.12 | None listed |
| 1.17 | affected | custom | Unavailable | 1.17.8 | None listed |
| 1.18 | affected | custom | Unavailable | 1.18.5 | None listed |