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Kubernetes: CVE-2019-11254: Denial of service vulnerability from malicious YAML payloads

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Kubernetes: CVE-2019-11254: Denial of service vulnerability from malicious YAML payloads

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/01/2020
Created
04/09/2020
Added
04/08/2020
Modified
04/08/2020

Description

The Kubernetes API Server component in versions 1.1-1.14, and versions prior to 1.15.10, 1.16.7 and 1.17.3 allows an authorized user who sends malicious YAML payloads to cause the kube-apiserver to consume excessive CPU cycles while parsing YAML.

Solution(s)

  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_15_10
  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_16_8
  • kubernetes-upgrade-1_17_3

References

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