CVE-2017-1000056: Kubernetes

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kubernetes version 1.5.0-1.5.4 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation in the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin resulting in the ability to make use of any existing PodSecurityPolicy object.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Kubernetes: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.5.4 only

Published 2017-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.