CVE-2022-23551: Microsoft Azure Ad Pod Identity

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

aad-pod-identity assigns Azure Active Directory identities to Kubernetes applications and has now been deprecated as of 24 October 2022. The NMI component in AAD Pod Identity intercepts and validates token requests based on regex. In this case, a token request made with backslash in the request (example: `/metadata/identity\oauth2\token/`) would bypass the NMI validation and be sent to IMDS allowing a pod in the cluster to access identities that it shouldn't have access to. This issue has been fixed and has been included in AAD Pod Identity release version 1.8.13. If using the AKS pod-managed identities add-on, no action is required. The clusters should now be running the version 1.8.13 release.

Affected products

• Microsoft Azure Ad Pod Identity: before 1.8.13 (fixed in 1.8.13)

Published 2022-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.