CVE-2018-1002100: Kubernetes

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Kubernetes versions 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x, and prior to version 1.9.6, the kubectl cp command insecurely handles tar data returned from the container, and can be caused to overwrite arbitrary local files.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Kubernetes: from 1.5.0, up to and including 1.5.9; from 1.6.0, up to and including 1.6.14; from 1.7.0, up to and including 1.7.17; from 1.8.0, up to and including 1.8.15; from 1.9.0, up to and including 1.9.5

Published 2018-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.