Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25735

Medium

Published: 06 September 2021

Published
06 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1630 95.0th percentile
Risk Priority 23 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25735 is a medium-severity Incomplete Internal State Distinction (CWE-372) vulnerability in Kubernetes Kubernetes. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 5.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook. Clusters are only affected by this vulnerability if they run a Validating Admission Webhook for Nodes that denies admission based at least…

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partially on the old state of the Node object. Validating Admission Webhook does not observe some previous fields.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

kubernetes
kubernetes
≤ 1.18.18 · 1.19.0 — 1.19.10 · 1.20.0 — 1.20.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References