Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25737

Low

Published: 06 September 2021

Published
06 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 2.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0038 59.8th percentile
Risk Priority 6 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25737 is a low-severity Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs (CWE-184) vulnerability in Kubernetes Kubernetes. Its CVSS base score is 2.7 (Low).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.2% 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 Kubernetes where a user may be able to redirect pod traffic to private networks on a Node. Kubernetes already prevents creation of Endpoint IPs in the localhost or link-local range, but the same validation…

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was not performed on EndpointSlice IPs.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

kubernetes
kubernetes
1.21.0 · 1.16.0 — 1.18.19 · 1.19.0 — 1.19.10 · 1.20.0 — 1.20.7

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

addresses: CWE-601

Validates redirect targets and URLs to ensure they conform to allowed destinations.

addresses: CWE-184

Spam filters rely on evolving blacklists, signatures, and heuristics of disallowed message patterns; keeping them updated per the control directly mitigates incomplete disallowed-input lists.

References