CVE-2023-5528: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods and persistent volumes on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they are using an in-tree storage plugin for Windows nodes.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only; version 39 only
• Kubernetes Kubernetes: from 1.8.0, before 1.25.16 (fixed in 1.25.16); from 1.26.0, before 1.26.11 (fixed in 1.26.11); from 1.27.0, before 1.27.8 (fixed in 1.27.8); from 1.28.0, before 1.28.4 (fixed in 1.28.4)

Published 2023-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.