CVE-2019-15789: Canonical MICROK8S

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.

Affected products

• Canonical MICROK8S: before 1.15.3 (fixed in 1.15.3)

Published 2020-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.