CVE-2021-1677HighCVSS 5.5

Azure Active Directory Pod Identity Spoofing Vulnerability

Published
January 12, 2021
Last Modified
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📋 Description

What can an attacker do with this vulnerability? The AAD pod identity enables users to assign identities to pods in Kubernetes clusters and fetch them from the pods using a regular IMDS (Azure Instance Metadata Service) request. When an identity is assigned to a pod, the pod can access to the IMDS endpoint and get a token of that identity. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability can laterally steal the identities that are associated with different pods. How do I know if I need to install the update? Customers with existing installation need to re-deploy their cluster and use Azure CNI instead of the default kubernet. For more information, please see details here: Configure Azure CNI networking in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Deploy AAD Pod Identity in a Cluster with Kubenet New installations will already have the update installed.

🎯 Affected products1

  • Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service

✅ Remediation

KBRelease Notes (Security Update)

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