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CVE-2022-3294

Node address isn't always verified when proxying

6.6 MediumPublic exploitFix available

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
High
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.62%Up 0.7 points since Mar 2, 2023
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 6.6

Node address isn't always verified when proxying

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
CVE-2022-3294
CVSS 3.1
6.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-1049 6.6

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
EUVD-2023-1049
CVSS 3.1
6.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-jh36-q97c-9928 8.8

Kubernetes vulnerable to validation bypass

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
GHSA-jh36-q97c-9928
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 6.6

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
CVE-2022-3294
CVSS 3.1
6.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.6

Node address isn't always verified when proxying

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
CVE-2022-3294
CVSS 3.1
6.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2022-3294 8.8

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3294
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
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OSVGHSA-jh36-q97c-9928 8.8

Kubernetes vulnerable to validation bypass

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
GHSA-jh36-q97c-9928
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2023-1413 8.8

kubernetes security update

Container cluster management.

Security Fix(es):

Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. There are 2+ CustomResourceDefinitions sharing the same API group 2. Users have cluster-wide list or watch authorization on one of those custom resources. 3. The same users are not authorized to read another custom resource in the same API group.(CVE-2022-3162)

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.(CVE-2022-3294)

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.(CVE-2023-2431)

Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ImagePolicyWebhook admission plugin is used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2727)

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2728)

Record
OESA-2023-1413
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2023-1414 8.8

kubernetes security update

Container cluster management.

Security Fix(es):

Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. There are 2+ CustomResourceDefinitions sharing the same API group 2. Users have cluster-wide list or watch authorization on one of those custom resources. 3. The same users are not authorized to read another custom resource in the same API group.(CVE-2022-3162)

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.(CVE-2022-3294)

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.(CVE-2023-2431)

Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ImagePolicyWebhook admission plugin is used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2727)

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2728)

Record
OESA-2023-1414
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2023-1415 8.8

kubernetes security update

Container cluster management.

Security Fix(es):

Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. There are 2+ CustomResourceDefinitions sharing the same API group 2. Users have cluster-wide list or watch authorization on one of those custom resources. 3. The same users are not authorized to read another custom resource in the same API group.(CVE-2022-3162)

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.(CVE-2022-3294)

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.(CVE-2023-2431)

Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ImagePolicyWebhook admission plugin is used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2727)

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2728)

Record
OESA-2023-1415
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2023-1416 8.8

kubernetes security update

Container cluster management.

Security Fix(es):

Users authorized to list or watch one type of namespaced custom resource cluster-wide can read custom resources of a different type in the same API group without authorization. Clusters are impacted by this vulnerability if all of the following are true: 1. There are 2+ CustomResourceDefinitions sharing the same API group 2. Users have cluster-wide list or watch authorization on one of those custom resources. 3. The same users are not authorized to read another custom resource in the same API group.(CVE-2022-3162)

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.(CVE-2022-3294)

A security issue was discovered in Kubelet that allows pods to bypass the seccomp profile enforcement. Pods that use localhost type for seccomp profile but specify an empty profile field, are affected by this issue. In this scenario, this vulnerability allows the pod to run in unconfined (seccomp disabled) mode. This bug affects Kubelet.(CVE-2023-2431)

Users may be able to launch containers using images that are restricted by ImagePolicyWebhook when using ephemeral containers. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ImagePolicyWebhook admission plugin is used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2727)

Users may be able to launch containers that bypass the mountable secrets policy enforced by the ServiceAccount admission plugin when using ephemeral containers. The policy ensures pods running with a service account may only reference secrets specified in the service account’s secrets field. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if the ServiceAccount admission plugin and the kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets annotation are used together with ephemeral containers.

(CVE-2023-2728)

Record
OESA-2023-1416
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRHBA-2023:0452 8.8

Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: rpm

Record
RHBA-2023:0452
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3294 6.6

Users may have access to secure endpoints in the control plane network. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if an untrusted user can modify Node objects and send proxy requests to them. Kubernetes supports node proxying, which allows clients of kube-apiserver to access endpoints of a Kubelet to establish connections to Pods, retrieve container logs, and more. While Kubernetes already validates the proxying address for Nodes, a bug in kube-apiserver made it possible to bypass this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to to the API server's private network.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3294
CVSS 3.1
6.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGO-2023-1629 No score

Kubernetes vulnerable to validation bypass in k8s.io/kubernetes

Kubernetes vulnerable to validation bypass in k8s.io/kubernetes

Record
GO-2023-1629
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12737-1 No score

kubernetes1.22-apiserver-1.22.17-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the kubernetes1.22-apiserver-1.22.17-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12737-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12780-1 No score

kubernetes1.23-apiserver-1.23.17-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the kubernetes1.23-apiserver-1.23.17-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12780-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12781-1 No score

kubernetes1.24-apiserver-1.24.11-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the kubernetes1.24-apiserver-1.24.11-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12781-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12810-1 No score

kubernetes1.25-apiserver-1.25.7-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the kubernetes1.25-apiserver-1.25.7-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12810-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2025:15424-1 No score

govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250807T150727-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250807T150727-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2025:15424-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2023:2292-1 No score

Security update for kubernetes1.23

This update for kubernetes1.23 fixes the following issues:

  • add kubernetes1.18-client-common as conflicts with kubernetes-client-bash-completion

  • Split individual completions into separate packages

Update to version 1.23.17:

  • releng: Update images, dependencies and version to Go 1.19.6
  • Update golang.org/x/net to v0.7.0
  • Pin golang.org/x/net to v0.4.0
  • add scale test for probes
  • use custom dialer for http probes
  • use custom dialer for tcp probes
  • add custom dialer optimized for probes
  • egress_selector: prevent goroutines leak on connect() step.
  • tls.Dial() validates hostname, no need to do that manually
  • Fix issue that Audit Server could not correctly encode DeleteOption
  • Do not include scheduler name in the preemption event message
  • Do not leak cross namespace pod metadata in preemption events
  • pkg/controller/job: re-honor exponential backoff
  • releng: Update images, dependencies and version to Go 1.19.5
  • Bump Konnectivity to v0.0.35
  • Improve vendor verification works for each staging repo
  • Update to go1.19
  • Adjust for os/exec changes in 1.19
  • Update golangci-lint to 1.46.2 and fix errors
  • Match go1.17 defaults for SHA-1 and GC
  • update golangci-lint to 1.45.0
  • kubelet: make the image pull time more accurate in event
  • change k8s.gcr.io/pause to registry.k8s.io/pause
  • use etcd 3.5.6-0 after promotion
  • changelog: CVE-2022-3294 and CVE-2022-3162 were fixed in v1.23.14
  • Add CVE-2021-25749 to CHANGELOG-1.23.md
  • Add CVE-2022-3294 to CHANGELOG-1.23.md
  • kubeadm: use registry.k8s.io instead of k8s.gcr.io
  • etcd: Updated to v3.5.5
  • Bump konnectivity network proxy to v0.0.33. Includes a couple bug fixes for better handling of dial failures. Agent & Server include numerous other fixes.
  • kubeadm: allow RSA and ECDSA format keys in preflight check
  • Fixes kubelet log compression on Windows
  • Reduce default gzip compression level from 4 to 1 in apiserver
  • exec auth: support TLS config caching
  • Marshal MicroTime to json and proto at the same precision
  • Windows: ensure runAsNonRoot does case-insensitive comparison on user name
  • update structured-merge-diff to 4.2.3
  • Add rate limiting when calling STS assume role API
  • Fixing issue in generatePodSandboxWindowsConfig for hostProcess containers by where pod sandbox won't have HostProcess bit set if pod does not have a security context but containers specify HostProcess.
Record
SUSE-SU-2023:2292-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
Go
1.25.0 up to 1.25.4
1.25.4
github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
Go
1.22.0 up to 1.22.16
1.22.16
github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
Go
1.24.0 up to 1.24.8
1.24.8
github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
Go
1.23.0 up to 1.23.14
1.23.14
kubernetes
Debian:12
before 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kubernetes
Debian:13
before 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kubernetes
Debian:14
before 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
1.20.5+really1.20.2-1
k8s.io/kubernetes
Go
1.22.0 up to 1.22.16, 1.23.0 up to 1.23.14, 1.24.0 up to 1.24.8, 1.25.0 up to 1.25.4
1.22.161.23.141.24.81.25.4
kubernetes
openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP3
before 1.20.2-20.oe1
1.20.2-20.oe1
kubernetes
openEuler:22.03-LTS
before 1.20.2-20.oe2203
1.20.2-20.oe2203
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kubernetes
openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP1
before 1.20.2-20.oe2203sp1
1.20.2-20.oe2203sp1
kubernetes
openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP2
before 1.20.2-20.oe2203sp2
1.20.2-20.oe2203sp2
microshift
Red Hat:openshift:4.12::el8
before 0:4.12.1-202301261525.p0.g3db9e81.assembly.4.12.1.el8
0:4.12.1-202301261525.p0.g3db9e81.assembly.4.12.1.el8
kubernetes1.23
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Containers 15 SP4
before 1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
kubernetes1.23
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS
before 1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
kubernetes1.23
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS
before 1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
kubernetes1.23
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS
before 1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
kubernetes1.23
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
before 1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
kubernetes1.23
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 7.1
before 1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
1.23.17-150300.7.6.1
kubernetes1.25
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 1.25.7-1.1
1.25.7-1.1
govulncheck-vulndb
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 0.0.20250807T150727-1.1
0.0.20250807T150727-1.1

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
SourceLinkDate
PoC in GitHubarbaaz29/CVE-2022-32942026-01-14

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV, PoC in GitHub

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2022-3294 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.6) in Kubernetes, published March 1, 2023. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.62%, the 76th percentile. Fixed in github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes 1.25.4.

References

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