CVE-2020-8552

Kubernetes API server denial of service

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Mar 27, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Feb 3, 2020

Description

The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 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 successful API requests.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	kubernetes

Weaknesses

CWE-789 Uncontrolled Memory Allocation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KubernetesKubernetes	before v1.17.3Affected before v1.16.7Affected before v1.15.10Affected

References

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/kubernetes-security-announce/2UOlsba2g0s
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89378
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/
FEDORA-2020-aeea04cd13vendor-advisory

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