Chapter 13: Learning from Kubernetes CVEs

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) are identifications for publicly known security vulnerabilities and exposures that are found in popular applications. The CVE ID is made up of the CVE string followed by the year and the ID number for the vulnerability. The CVE database is publicly available and is maintained by the MITRE Corporation. The CVE entries include a brief description of each issue, which is helpful to understand the root cause and severity of the issue. These entries do not include technical details about the issue. CVEs are useful for IT professionals to coordinate and prioritize updates. Each CVE has a severity associated with it. MITRE uses a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to assign a severity rating to a CVE. It is recommended to patch high-severity CVEs immediately. Let's look at an example of a CVE entry on cve.mitre.org.

As you can see in the following screenshot, a CVE entry includes the ID...