CVE-2022-37968 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the cluster connect feature of Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters and Azure Stack Edge devices. With a CVSS score of 10.0, an unauthenticated attacker can remotely gain administrative control over affected Kubernetes clusters with low attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code available, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating high awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_arc-enabled_kubernetes:1.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_arc-enabled_kubernetes:1.6.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.7.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_arc-enabled_kubernetes:1.7.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.8.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_arc-enabled_kubernetes:1.8.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_stack_edge:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.