CVE-2020-1708: Red Hat Openshift Container Platform

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It has been found in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and all openshift-enterprise versions from 4.1 to, including 4.3, that 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/mysql-apb.

Affected products

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

Published 2020-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.