CVE-2023-2728

unknown
Published 2023-07-03 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

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-2023-2728

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2728.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
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>=1.27.0,<1.27.31.27.3
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes>=1.26.0,<1.26.61.26.6
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes>=1.25.0,<1.25.111.25.11
golang Gok8s.io/kubernetes<1.24.151.24.15

References

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