CVE-2019-19355 Privilege escalation in openshift

What is CVE-2019-19355?

CVE-2019-19355 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openshift, published on 18 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the openshift/ocp-release-operator-sdk. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/ansible-operator-container as shipped in Openshift 4.

Weakness: CWE-269, CWE-266

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19355?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Openshift.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19355?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-19355 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-19355 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19355 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openshift

• CVE-2014-3496 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-0234 Hardcoded credentials in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-2060 Command injection in OpenShift Origin Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-4561 Path traversal in openshift-origin-msg-node-mcollective Critical 9.1
• CVE-2014-0163 Command injection in Openshift High 8.8

All Redhat Openshift vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g4q9-4c3v-qw9g.