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CVE-2016-7075

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7075

Severity

8.1

High

CVSS V3

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Description

It was found that Kubernetes as used by Openshift Enterprise 3 did not correctly validate X.509 client intermediate certificate host name fields. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass authentication requirements by using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7075
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7w66-j2r2-vm3p
  • https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2064
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7075
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/34517

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