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High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Mar 9, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-1706

CVE-2020-1706

Description

It has been found that in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and openshift-enterprise versions 4.1 up to, including 4.3, multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to modify /etc/passwd to add a user and escalate their privileges. This CVE is specific to the openshift/apb-tools-container.

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Affected products

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  • Red Hat/OpenShift Enterprisellm-fuzzy
    Range: 3.11, 4.1 - 4.3
  • Red Hat/openshift/apb-tools-containerv5
    Range: openshift-enterprise version 3.11

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