CVE-2023-2431: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 38 only
• Kubernetes Kubernetes: before 1.24.14 (fixed in 1.24.14); from 1.25.0, before 1.25.10 (fixed in 1.25.10); from 1.26.0, before 1.26.5 (fixed in 1.26.5); from 1.27.0, before 1.27.2 (fixed in 1.27.2)

Published 2023-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.