CVE-2025-5187

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CVSS 3.1

6.7 medium

EPSS

<1%p44

Published

Aug 27, 2025 (Aug 27, 2025)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A vulnerability exists in the NodeRestriction admission controller in Kubernetes clusters where node users can delete their corresponding node object by patching themselves with an OwnerReference to a cluster-scoped resource. If the OwnerReference resource does not exist or is subsequently deleted, the given node object will be deleted via garbage collection.

Weakness: CWE-863
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.5%)

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