What is CVE-2020-1701?

CVE-2020-1701 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kubevirt, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-05-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-1701?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Kubevirt

CVE-2020-1701

A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler. An attacker with access to create VMs could attach any secret within their namespace, allowing them to read the con…

EPSS: 0.007 (51.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Kubevirt
N/a Virt-handler — versions kubevirt 0.26.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-1701?: CVE-2020-1701 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kubevirt, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-05-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-1701?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.