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kubernetes — security advisory
A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that allows an aggregated API server to redirect client traffic to any URL. This could lead to the client performing unexpected actions as well as forwarding the client's API server credentials to third parties.
- Products
- kubernetes
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-3172
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 15:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that allows an aggregated API server to redirect client traffic to any URL. This could lead to the client performing unexpected actions as well as forwarding the client's API server credentials to third parties.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3172
kubernetes
Fixed versions: 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kubernetes
Fixed versions: 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kubernetes
Fixed versions: 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2023-11-03T20:15:08.55+00:00"
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