CVE-2019-10200 Privilege escalation in OpenShift Container Platform
Users with pod creation rights can schedule pods on master nodes to steal AWS IAM credentials, gaining full infrastructure control.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-10200?
CVE-2019-10200 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openshift Container Platform, published on 19 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was discovered in OpenShift Container Platform 4 where, by default, users with access to create pods also have the ability to schedule workloads on master nodes. Pods with permission to access the host network, running on master nodes, can retrieve security credentials for the master AWS IAM role, allowing management access to AWS resources. With access to the security credentials, the user then has access to the entire infrastructure. Impact to data and system availability is high.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10200?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Openshift Container Platform.
How do I fix CVE-2019-10200?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-10200 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2019-10200 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10200 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openshift Container Platform
- CVE-2020-27836 Missing authorization in cluster-ingress-operator
- CVE-2018-1085 Misconfiguration in openshift-ansible
- CVE-2026-54099 Privilege escalation in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- CVE-2026-1784 Ose-cluster-ingress-operator: remote code execution through haproxy configuration injection
- CVE-2021-20182 Privilege escalation in openshift
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8283-mprv-vc6w.