CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-15789
High (7.8) in canonical microk8s. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Privilege escalation vulnerability in MicroK8s allows a low privilege user with local access to obtain root access to the host by provisioning a privileged container. Fixed in MicroK8s 1.15.3.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:microk8s
References
- https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/explicit-use-of-sudo-in-microk8s-cli/7605
- https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/pull/590
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-15789.html
- https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/microk8s-privilege-escalation
- https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/explicit-use-of-sudo-in-microk8s-cli/7605