Database/Container, Kubernetes & orchestration

Kubernetes (kubelet): /debug/pprof exposed on the unauthenticated kubelet healthz port

CVSS 8.2CVE-2019-11248Container, Kubernetes & orchestrationcurated

Impact

/debug/pprof exposed on the unauthenticated kubelet healthz port; leaks node and workload internals

Who can reach it

Any pod on the cluster network reaching the node's healthz port

What to do

Rolling kubelet upgrade with node drain; firewall the healthz port to the control plane

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11248

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