CVE-2020-8551

Kubernetes kubelet denial of service

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Mar 27, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Feb 3, 2020

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Description

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lkubernetes

Weaknesses

  • CWE-789 Uncontrolled Memory Allocation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KubernetesKubernetes
  • before v1.17.3Affected
  • before v1.16.7Affected
  • before v1.15.10Affected

References

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