High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Feb 23, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-20198
CVE-2021-20198
Description
A flaw was found in the OpenShift Installer before version v0.9.0-master.0.20210125200451-95101da940b0. During installation of OpenShift Container Platform 4 clusters, bootstrap nodes are provisioned with anonymous authentication enabled on kubelet port 10250. A remote attacker able to reach this port during installation can make unauthenticated /exec requests to execute arbitrary commands within running containers. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Affected products
3- Range: <v0.9.0-master.0.20210125200451-95101da940b0
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References
1- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
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