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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling and Uncontrolled Memory Allocation in Kubernetes

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 15, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 18, 2023

Package

gomod k8s.io/kubernetes (Go)

Affected versions

>= 1.15.0, < 1.15.10
>= 1.16.0, < 1.16.6
>= 1.17.0, < 1.17.2

Patched versions

1.15.10
1.16.6
1.17.2

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 27, 2020
Reviewed May 6, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 15, 2022
Last updated Sep 18, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS score

0.134%
(50th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-8551

GHSA ID

GHSA-qhm4-jxv7-j9pq

Source code

No known source code
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