CVE-2020-1709 Privilege escalation in openshift/mediawiki

What is CVE-2020-1709?

CVE-2020-1709 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openshift, published on 20 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was found in all openshift/mediawiki 4.x.x versions prior to 4.3.0, where an insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in the openshift/mediawiki. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1709?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Openshift.

How do I fix CVE-2020-1709?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-1709 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-1709 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1709 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-7x8g-9gr7-q6ff.