- [CVE-2023-3955: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation](#cve-2023-3955-insufficient-input-sanitization-on-windows-nodes-leads-to-privilege-escalation)
    - [CVE-2023-3676: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation](#cve-2023-3676-insufficient-input-sanitization-on-windows-nodes-leads-to-privilege-escalation)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-8)

    - [CVE-2023-3955: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation](#cve-2023-3955-insufficient-input-sanitization-on-windows-nodes-leads-to-privilege-escalation)
    - [CVE-2023-3676: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation](#cve-2023-3676-insufficient-input-sanitization-on-windows-nodes-leads-to-privilege-escalation)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-8)

* Fix issue that vSphere cloud provider cannot delete volume which is provisioned in datastore specified in storageclass ([#65550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65550), [@w-leads](https://github.com/w-leads))
* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))

external cloud providers now waits for the providerID value to be available before untainting it. This ensures that nodes are not declared Ready without necessary information such as the providerID and zone labels, which are required for integrations like load balancers to function correctly. Cloud providers that do not implement the GetInstanceProviderID method will not require the providerID to be set and will not fail to initialize the node for backward compatibility. ([#123713](https://github.com/ku...

    - [CVE-2023-3955: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation](#cve-2023-3955-insufficient-input-sanitization-on-windows-nodes-leads-to-privilege-escalation)
    - [CVE-2023-3676: Insufficient input sanitization on Windows nodes leads to privilege escalation](#cve-2023-3676-insufficient-input-sanitization-on-windows-nodes-leads-to-privilege-escalation)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-7)

is unauthenticated. The mitigation may be disabled by setting the `UnauthenticatedHTTP2DOSMitigation` feature gate to `false` (it is enabled by default). An API server fronted by an L7 load balancer that already mitigates these http/2 attacks may choose to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer -> kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may opt to disable the kube-apiserver...