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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-8551: kubernetes: crafted requests to kubelet API allow for memory exhaustion

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-8551: kubernetes: crafted requests to kubelet API allow for memory exhaustion

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/27/2020
Created
04/09/2020
Added
04/08/2020
Modified
05/10/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift

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