CVE-2021-25741

high
Published 2021-11-01 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user may be able to create a container with subpath volume mounts to access files & directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

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-2021-25741

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25741.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.22.2-1
suse slesaffected
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<1.19.151.19.15
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes>=1.20.0,<1.20.111.20.11
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes>=1.21.0,<1.21.51.21.5
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes>=1.22.0,<1.22.21.22.2

References

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