CVE-2019-15789 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting MicroK8s versions prior to 1.15.3. A low-privilege local user can exploit this to gain root access on the host by provisioning a privileged container. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.15, < 1.15.3CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:canonical:microk8s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.15.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:canonical:microk8s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.