CVE-2018-1000400

8.8 highEPSS 2.0%

High (8.8) in kubernetes cri-o. EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kubernetes CRI-O version prior to 1.9 contains a Privilege Context Switching Error (CWE-270) vulnerability in the handling of ambient capabilities that can result in containers running with elevated privileges, allowing users abilities they should not have. This attack appears to be exploitable via container execution. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.9.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2018-05-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

kubernetes:cri-o

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104262
https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/pull/1558/files
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104262
https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o/pull/1558/files

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