Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-8568

Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver versions v0.0.15 and v0.0.16 allow an attacker who can modify a SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes paths under var/lib/kubelet/pods that contain other Kubernetes Secrets.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2020-8568
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 11:31 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-8568

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Jan 2021, 17:15 UTC

Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver versions v0.0.15 and v0.0.16 allow an attacker who can modify a SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes paths under var/lib/kubelet/pods that contain other Kubernetes Secrets.

osv:CVE-2020-8568
Complete source record
{
  "id": "0afeeab056e8838a8921152e36241f1bfb9a4157684d8e634f6c81b84f72ca93",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8568",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-8568",
    "summary": "Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver versions v0.0.15 and v0.0.16 allow an attacker who can modify a SecretProviderClassPodStatus/Status resource the ability to write content to the host filesystem and sync file contents to Kubernetes Secrets. This includes paths under var/lib/kubelet/pods that contain other Kubernetes Secrets.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-8568",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-8568",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-8568",
        "GHSA-5cgx-vhfp-6cf9",
        "GO-2022-0629"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "7aec51d6cc23fbb8158a719ca4d759398730c2ef"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "482ff2ea50f6123b536f0732a61e38dfb31bb4df"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:secrets_store_csi_driver:0.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.0.15"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.0.15"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:secrets_store_csi_driver:0.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.0.16"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.0.16"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.0.15",
            "0.0.16",
            "v0.0.16",
            "v0.0.15"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8568.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:26.218846760Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver/issues/378",
        "https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-secrets-store-csi-driver/c/Cb9cvymTzl4"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-8568",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385367,
  "published_at": "2021-01-21T17:15:14.157+00:00"
}