CVE-2020-8561

MediumCVSS 4.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-441 CWE-610

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 20, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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