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CVE-2020-8551: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

March 27, 2020 (updated July 24, 2020)

The Kubelet component 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, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port

References

  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8551

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.15.0 up to 1.15.9, all versions starting from 1.16.0 up to 1.16.6, all versions starting from 1.17.0 up to 1.17.2

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

go/github.com/kubernetes/kubelet/CVE-2020-8551.yml

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