CVE-2023-2431 Bypass of seccomp profile enforcement

What is CVE-2023-2431?

CVE-2023-2431 is a low-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 16 Jun 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.

Weakness: CWE-1287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-2431?

9 open source packages ship an affected version, including k8s.io/kubernetes. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Kubernetes Kubernetes.

How do I fix CVE-2023-2431?

Upgrade k8s.io/kubernetes to a fixed version for your release line: 1.24.14, 1.25.10, 1.26.5 or 1.27.2.

Is CVE-2023-2431 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-2431 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2431, GHSA-xc8m-28vv-4pjc, GO-2023-1864, SUSE-SU-2023:2691-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:13013-1.