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Azure/setup-kubectl: Escalation of privilege vulnerability for v3 and lower

Published Mar 6, 2023

Description

Azure/setup-kubectl is a GitHub Action for installing Kubectl. This vulnerability only impacts versions before version 3. An insecure temporary creation of a file allows other actors on the Actions runner to replace the Kubectl binary created by this action because it is world writable. This Kubectl tool installer runs `fs.chmodSync(kubectlPath, 777)` to set permissions on the Kubectl binary, however, this allows any local user to replace the Kubectl binary. This allows privilege escalation to the user that can also run kubectl, most likely root. This attack is only possible if an attacker somehow breached the GitHub actions runner or if a user is utilizing an Action that maliciously executes this attack. This has been fixed and released in all versions `v3` and later. 775 permissions are used instead. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Mar 6, 2023
Updated Feb 25, 2025
Reserved Jan 19, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Feb 25, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Mar 6, 2023
Updated Feb 25, 2025
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2023-1065 GHSA-P756-RFXH-X63H