CVE-2020-8568

mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.013 · 71 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.33% (71st) EPSS

CVSS 4.9 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver versions v0.0.15 and v0.0.16 allow an attacker who can modify a SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes paths under var/lib/kubelet/pods that contain other Kubernetes Secrets.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.9mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 4.9

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.2

v3.15.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · jordan@liggitt.netexploitability 1.3 · impact 4

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-20USCWE-20USCWE-22USCWE-24USCWE-24US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Kubernetes Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver≤ Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver v0.0.16enisa_euvdEU
Kubernetes Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver≤ Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver v0.0.15enisa_euvdEU
kubernetes secrets store csi driver= 0.0.15nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:secrets_store_csi_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
kubernetes secrets store csi driver= 0.0.16nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:secrets_store_csi_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go sigs.k8s.io/secrets-store-csi-driver0.0.15 → 0.0.17osvUSpkg:golang/sigs.k8s.io/secrets-store-csi-driver

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-5cgx-vhfp-6cf9Directory traversal in Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver2022-02-15ghsa · osvUS
Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver versions v0.0.15 and v0.0.16 allow an attacker who can modify a `SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status` resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes paths under `var/lib/kubelet/pods` that contain other Kubernetes Secrets. ### Specific Go Packages Affected sigs.k8s.io/secrets-store-csi-driver/controllers sigs.k8s.io/secrets-store-csi-driver/pkg/rotation sigs.k8s.io/secrets-store-csi-driver/pkg/secrets-store
GO-2022-0629Directory traversal in sigs.k8s.io/secrets-store-csi-driver2022-02-15vendor · osvUS
Modifying pod status allows host directory traversal. Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver allows an attacker who can modify a SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes paths under var/lib/kubelet/pods that contain other Kubernetes Secrets.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-01-21modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

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