Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kubernetes package, versions <1.17.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.14% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-KUBERNETES-561017
  • published24 Mar 2020
  • disclosed27 Mar 2020

Introduced: 24 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-8551  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable kubernetes to version 1.17.4-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kubernetes package and not the kubernetes package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1