CVE-2020-1701: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

May 27, 2021 (updated June 10, 2021)

A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler 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 contents of that secret.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792092
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1701

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