CVE-2020-8561

medium
Published 2021-09-21 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where actors that control the responses of MutatingWebhookConfiguration or ValidatingWebhookConfiguration requests are able to redirect kube-apiserver requests to private networks of the apiserver. If that user can view kube-apiserver logs when the log level is set to 10, they can view the redirected responses and headers in the logs.

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-2020-8561

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
debian debiansidfixed1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.20.5+really1.20.2-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes<=1.22.2

References

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