CVE-2020-1706: Red Hat Openshift Container Platform

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It has been found that in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and openshift-enterprise versions 4.1 up to, including 4.3, multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/apb-tools-container.

Affected products

• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only

Published 2020-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.