CVE-2020-5423

Cloud Controller is vulnerable to denial of service via YAML parsing

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Dec 2, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jan 3, 2020

Description

CAPI (Cloud Controller) versions prior to 1.101.0 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in which an unauthenticated malicious attacker can send specially-crafted YAML files to certain endpoints, causing the YAML parser to consume excessive CPU and RAM.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.5 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	pivotal

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CAPICloud Foundry	All to before 1.101.0Affected
CF DeploymentCloud Foundry	All to before 15.0.0Affected

References

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-5423

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