CVE-2020-8559

unknown
Published 2024-04-24 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8559

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8559.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.18.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.18.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.18.5-1
debian debiansidfixed1.18.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.18.5-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gok8s.io/apimachinery<0.16.130.16.13
golang Gok8s.io/apimachinery>=0.17.0,<0.17.90.17.9
golang Gok8s.io/apimachinery>=0.18.0,<0.18.70.18.7
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes<1.16.131.16.13
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes>=1.17.0,<1.17.91.17.9
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes>=1.18.0,<1.18.71.18.7
golang Gok8s.io/apimachinery>=0.18.0,<0.18.7-rc.00.16.13

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.