Executive brief
Privilege Escalation in Kubernetes in k8s.io/apimachinery
Affected products
- Go k8s.io/kubernetes
- Go k8s.io/apimachinery
Junglewise Threat Intelligence
CVE-2020-8559: GO-2024-2748 - Privilege Escalation in Kubernetes in k8s.io/apimachinery
CVE-2020-8559 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2024-05-20
Technologies: k8s.io/kubernetes (Go), k8s.io/apimachinery (Go). Vendors: Go.
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- GO-2025-3774 - Kubernetes allows nodes to bypass dynamic resource allocation authorization checks in k8s.io/kubernetes
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