GHSA-pp3f-98qg-5g75

aws-iam-authenticator allow-listed IAM identity may be able to modify their username, escalate privileges before v0.5.9

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-2385

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	sigs.k8s.io/aws-iam-authenticator	< 0.5.9	0.5.9

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A security issue was discovered in aws-iam-authenticator where an allow-listed IAM identity may be able to modify their username and escalate privileges.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2385 advisory
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/issues/472 web
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/pull/469 web
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/commit/029d1dcf2ec8d662d9b1c21260bb197404bc8218 web
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator package
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/releases/tag/v0.5.9 web
https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/dev/c/EMxHpU-1ZYs web