Kubernetes vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Kubernetes has 94 published vulnerabilities across 20 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Kubernetes, with 57. If you run Kubernetes software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Kubernetes products have the most vulnerabilities?

Kubernetes leads with 57 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

Which Kubernetes vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Kubernetes's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Kubernetes flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 87%

    In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.10.11, v1.11.5, and v1.12.3, incorrect handling of error responses to proxied upgrade requests in the kube-apiserver allowed specially crafted requests to establish a connection...

    CVSS9.8Published5 Dec 2018
  2. 75%

    The debugging endpoint /debug/pprof is exposed over the unauthenticated Kubelet healthz port.

    CVSS8.2Published29 Aug 2019
  3. 70%

    Kubernetes Dashboard before 1.10.1 allows attackers to bypass authentication and use Dashboard's Service Account for reading secrets within the cluster.

    CVSS7.5Published3 Jan 2019
  4. 57%

    Code injection via nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/permanent-redirect annotation.

    CVSS7.6Published25 Oct 2023
  5. 19%

    A flaw was found in CRI-O in the way it set kernel options for a pod.

    CVSS8.8Published16 Mar 2022
  6. 17%

    In all Kubernetes versions prior to v1.11.8, v1.12.6, and v1.13.4, users that are authorized to make patch requests to the Kubernetes API Server can send a specially crafted patch of type "json-patch" (e.g.

    CVSS6.5Published1 Apr 2019
  7. 13%

    A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes.

    CVSS8.8Published31 Oct 2023
  8. 13%

    In Kubernetes versions 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x and prior to versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9 and 1.9.4 containers using subpath volume mounts with any volume type (including non-privileged pods, subject to file permissions)...

    CVSS9.6Published13 Mar 2018
  9. 13%

    The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine.

    CVSS5.5Published1 Apr 2019
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Our catalogue lists 94 published vulnerabilities across 20 products and 1,160 versions from Kubernetes.

None of Kubernetes's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Kubernetes, with 57 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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