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  "id": "GO-2023-2170",
  "modified": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "published": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-3955",
    "GHSA-q78c-gwqw-jcmc"
  ],
  "summary": "Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation in k8s.io/kubernetes and k8s.io/mount-utils",
  "details": "A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a user that can create pods on Windows nodes may be able to escalate to admin privileges on those nodes. Kubernetes clusters are only affected if they include Windows nodes.",
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      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q78c-gwqw-jcmc"
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