Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-10220

High

Published: 22 November 2024

Published
22 November 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.3957 97.4th percentile
Risk Priority 40 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-10220 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 2.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The vulnerability CVE-2024-10220 resides in the Kubernetes kubelet component and permits arbitrary command execution via specially crafted gitRepo volumes. It affects kubelet versions through 1.28.11, 1.29.0 through 1.29.6, and 1.30.0 through 1.30.2, and is classified under CWE-22 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.1.

An attacker with low privileges can exploit the flaw over a network connection without user interaction, resulting in high confidentiality and integrity impact on the affected node while availability remains unaffected.

Public advisories and patch information are available via the referenced Kubernetes GitHub issue, the kubernetes-security-announce mailing list post, and the Openwall oss-security archive entry. The associated EPSS score remains flat at a peak of 0.3957 with no material upward trajectory observed.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Kubernetes kubelet component allows arbitrary command execution via specially crafted gitRepo volumes.This issue affects kubelet: through 1.28.11, from 1.29.0 through 1.29.6, from 1.30.0 through 1.30.2.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

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-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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