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Medium severity4.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 20, 2021· Updated Jun 1, 2026

CVE-2020-8561

CVE-2020-8561

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where actors that control the responses of MutatingWebhookConfiguration or ValidatingWebhookConfiguration requests are able to redirect kube-apiserver requests to private networks of the apiserver. If that user can view kube-apiserver logs when the log level is set to 10, they can view the redirected responses and headers in the logs.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
k8s.io/kubernetesGo
<= 1.22.2

Affected products

38

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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