CVE-2019-3779

HIGH 8.8CVE-2019-3779 · Published 08/03/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-3779 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting container runtime (cloudfoundry).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.67%, higher than 51.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.29.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
container runtime cloudfoundry	`< 0.29.0`	`0.29.0`

Description

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, versions prior to 0.29.0, deploys Kubernetes clusters utilize the same CA (Certificate Authority) to sign and trust certs for ETCD as used by the Kubernetes API. This could allow a user authenticated with a cluster to request a signed certificate leveraging the Kubernetes CSR capability to obtain a credential that could escalate privilege access to ETCD.

References

cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2019-3779 · Vendor Advisory

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