CVE-2023-5408

highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.51% (74th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

13 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the node restriction admission plugin of the kubernetes api server of OpenShift. A remote attacker who modifies the node role label could steer workloads from the control plane and etcd nodes onto different worker nodes and gain broader access to the cluster.

cvss

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

8.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.6–8.2

v3.17.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.9

v3.18.2highAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.9

v3.16.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USCWE-269US

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat OpenShiftall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift:-
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform < 4.12.43all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift:container_platform__4.12.43
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform < 4.14.0all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:openshift:container_platform__4.14.0
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11< v4.11.0-202311211130.p0.g7021090.assembly.streamenisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12< v4.12.0-202311021630.p0.gfe5e2a1.assembly.streamenisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13< v4.13.0-202310210425.p0.gd525f5d.assembly.streamenisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14< v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g8b38d12.assembly.streamenisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform≤ 4fstec_bduRU
redhat openshift container platform= 4.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openshift container platform= 4.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openshift container platform= 4.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openshift container platform= 4.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-2566Red Hat OpenShift: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2023-10-04csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Red Hat OpenShift ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-11-02modified 2026-06-17

references (21)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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