CVE-2021-25736 (GCVE-0-2021-25736)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-30 02:19
Modified
2025-06-12 14:42
Summary
Kube-proxy on Windows can unintentionally forward traffic to local processes listening on the same port (“spec.ports[*].port”) as a LoadBalancer Service when the LoadBalancer controller does not set the “status.loadBalancer.ingress[].ip” field. Clusters where the LoadBalancer controller sets the “status.loadBalancer.ingress[].ip” field are unaffected.
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