CVE-2019-11244: Kubernetes

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Kubernetes v1.8.x-v1.14.x, schema info is cached by kubectl in the location specified by --cache-dir (defaulting to $HOME/.kube/http-cache), written with world-writeable permissions (rw-rw-rw-). If --cache-dir is specified and pointed at a different location accessible to other users/groups, the written files may be modified by other users/groups and disrupt the kubectl invocation.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Kubernetes: from 1.8.0, up to and including 1.14.1
• Netapp Trident: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2019-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.