**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.28.0
  - kubelet <= v1.27.4
  - kubelet <= v1.26.7
  - kubelet <= v1.25.12
  - kubelet <= v1.24.16

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.28.1
  - kubelet v1.27.5
  - kubelet v1.26.8
  - kubelet v1.25.13
  - kubelet v1.24.17

    * "client-certificate: /var/lib/kubelet/pki/kubelet-client-current.pem" and "client-key: /var/lib/kubelet/pki/kubelet-client-current.pem", replacing the embedded client certificate and key.
* action required: kubeadm deprecates the use of the hyperkube image ([#85094](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85094), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

### Other notable changes

      - [kube-apiserver:](#kube-apiserver)
      - [kubelet:](#kubelet)
      - [kubectl:](#kubectl)
      - [client-go:](#client-go)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-20)
    - [Deprecation](#deprecation)
      - [kube-apiserver:](#kube-apiserver-1)
      - [kube-controller-manager:](#kube-controller-manager)
      - [kubelet:](#kubelet-1)
      - [kube-proxy:](#kube-proxy)
      - [kubeadm:](#kubeadm)

directories outside of the volume, including on the host filesystem.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.22.0 - v1.22.1
  - kubelet v1.21.0 - v1.21.4
  - kubelet v1.20.0 - v1.20.10
  - kubelet <= v1.19.14

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.22.2
  - kubelet v1.21.5
  - kubelet v1.20.11
  - kubelet v1.19.15

This vulnerability was reported by Fabricio Voznika and Mark Wolters of Google.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= v1.28.0
  - kubelet <= v1.27.4
  - kubelet <= v1.26.7
  - kubelet <= v1.25.12
  - kubelet <= v1.24.16

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.28.1
  - kubelet v1.27.5
  - kubelet v1.26.8
  - kubelet v1.25.13
  - kubelet v1.24.17

This vulnerability was reported by Tomer Peled @tomerpeled92

 ([#64792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64792), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users may be able to modify container logs.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet <= 1.27.15
  - kubelet <= 1.28.11
  - kubelet <= 1.29.6
  - kubelet <= 1.30.2 

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet 1.27.16
  - kubelet 1.28.12
  - kubelet 1.29.7
  - kubelet 1.30.3 

This vulnerability was reported by Paulo Gomes @pjbgf from SUSE.

* kubelet `--cert-dir` now defaults to `/var/lib/kubelet/pki`, in order to ensure bootstrapped and rotated certificates persist beyond a reboot. resolves an issue in kubeadm with false-positive `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks ([#53317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53317), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

    *   Extends the gpu_device_plugin e2e_node test to verify that scheduled pods can continue to run even after a device plugin deletion and kubelet restart.
*   The NodeController no longer supports kubelet 1.2. ([#48996](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48996),[ @k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- kubelet: Users can now enable the alpha NodeLease feature gate to have the Kubelet create and periodically renew a Lease in the kube-node-lease namespace. The lease duration defaults to 40s, and can be configured via the kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration's NodeLeaseDurationSeconds field. ([#66257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66257),...