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Kubernetes: CVE-2019-11252: Kubernetes API Server JSON/YAML parsing vulnerable to resource exhaustion attack

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Kubernetes: CVE-2019-11252: Kubernetes API Server JSON/YAML parsing vulnerable to resource exhaustion attack

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/23/2020
Created
08/08/2020
Added
08/07/2020
Modified
08/07/2020

Description

The Kubernetes kube-controller-manager in versions v1.0-v1.17 is vulnerable to a credential leakage via error messages in mount failure logs and events for AzureFile and CephFS volumes.

Solution(s)

  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_13_12
  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_14_8
  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_15_5
  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_16_2

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