CVE-2020-8566

Publication date 7 December 2020

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In Kubernetes clusters using Ceph RBD as a storage provisioner, with logging level of at least 4, Ceph RBD admin secrets can be written to logs. This occurs in kube-controller-manager's logs during provisioning of Ceph RBD persistent claims. This affects < v1.19.3, < v1.18.10, < v1.17.13.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
kubernetes	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

leosilva

kubernates is in fact a kubernetes installer that calls snap, not the package it self.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.7 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N