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CVE-2018-1000400

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Published: May 18, 2018 at 06:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:32 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorCri O

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 2%

Description

Kubernetes CRI-O version prior to 1.9 contains a Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability in the handling of ambient capabilities that can result in containers running with elevated privileges, allowing users abilities they should not have. This attack appears to be exploitable via container execution. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.9.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Cri O · Kubernetes

95%

v < 1.9.0

Affected range stops below 1.9.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/pull/1558/files

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104262

x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/pull/1558/files

CVSS

6.5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-269

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