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Fencer Intel
high 7.7

CVE-2016-1905 json

Access Restriction Bypass in kubernetes

published 2016-02-03 10 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-xx8c-m748-xr4j , GO-2022-0893 , EUVD-2022-1260

cvss
7.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The API server in Kubernetes does not properly check admission control, which allows remote authenticated users to access additional resources via a crafted patched object.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes 1.2.0-alpha.6
  • openshift openshift 3.0 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose
  • openshift-node openshift 3.0 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose
  • openshift-master openshift 3.0 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose
  • openshift-clients openshift 3.0 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose
  • openshift-sdn-ovs openshift 3.0 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose
  • tuned-profiles-openshift-node openshift 3.0 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose
  • jenkins openshift 3.1 1.625.3-2.el7aos
  • heapster openshift 3.1 0.18.2-3.gitaf4752e.el7aos

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0351RHSA-2016:0070

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1905 updated cvss 4.0

server: patch operation should use patched object to check admission control

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kubernetes
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 openshift 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose, openshift-node 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose, openshift-master 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose, openshift-clients 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose, openshift-sdn-ovs 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose, tuned-profiles-openshift-node 3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0351
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 nss_wrapper 1.0.3-1.el7, openvswitch 2.4.0-1.el7, jenkins 1.625.3-2.el7aos, nodejs-rc 1.1.2-1.el7aos, nodejs-got 5.2.1-1.el7aos, nodejs-ini 1.1.0-6.el7aos, +127 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0070

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
<1.2.0-alpha.6
1.2.0-alpha.6

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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