- [Changelog since v1.28.8](#changelog-since-v1288)
  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information)
    - [CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin](#cve-2024-3177-bypassing-mountable-secrets-policy-imposed-by-the-serviceaccount-admission-plugin)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind)
    - [Feature](#feature)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression)

### CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

* Azure file persistent volumes can use a new `secretNamespace` field to reference a secret in a different namespace than the one containing their bound persistent volume claim. The azure file persistent volume provisioner honors a corresponding `secretNamespace` storage class parameter to determine where to place secrets containing the storage account key. ([#47660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47660), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))...

### CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

### SIG CLI

* You can now use the `base64decode` function in kubectl go templates to decode base64-encoded data, such as `kubectl get secret SECRET -o go-template='{{ .data.KEY | base64decode }}'`. ([#60755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60755), [@glb](https://github.com/glb))

### CVE-2023-2728: Bypassing enforce mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

* Use the mounted "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token" as the token file for running in-cluster based e2e testing. ([#69273](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69273), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

improves the security posture in the mounting process where the volumes are ACL’ed on the pods’ service account without handing out unnecessary permissions to the CSI drivers’ service account. This feature is especially important for secret-handling CSI drivers, such as the secrets-store-csi-driver. Since these tokens can be rotated and short-lived, this feature also provides a knob for CSI drivers to receive `NodePublishVolume` RPC calls periodically with the new token. This knob is also useful when volumes...

- Reverts breaking change to inline AzureFile volumes in v1.18.15-v1.18.17; referenced secrets are now correctly searched for in the same namespace as the pod as in previous releases. ([#100397](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100397), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

* remove iSCSI volume storage cleartext secrets in logs ([#81215](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81215), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))