Is CVE-2020-1701 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-1701 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-1701?

CVE-2020-1701 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-1701?

CVE-2020-1701 has an EPSS score of 0.75% (50th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-1701?

Upgrade kubevirt to 0.26.0 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-1701

MEDIUM

6.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

A flaw was found in the KubeVirt main virt-handler versions before 0.26.0 regarding the access permissions of virt-handler. An attacker with access to create VMs could attach any secret within their namespace, allowing them to read the contents of that secret.

CWE-732Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

How to fix

Remediation Available

kubevirtNVD

Affected:< 0.26.0Fixed in:0.26.0CVE-2020-1701derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.75%probability of exploitation in 30 days

50thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 50% of all known CVEs.

References

Third-Party Advisory1

bugzilla.redhat.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2011-3923	Critical	9.8	89%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-15379	Critical	9.8	86%	-	-
CVE-2018-1000207	High	7.2	64%	-	-
CVE-2023-32986	High	8.8	63%	-	-
CVE-2021-44521	Critical	9.1	55%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-13374	Medium	4.3	38%	KEV + Ransom	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.