CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-8552

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Published: Mar 27, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
4.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 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 successful API requests.

Weakness

The product allocates memory based on an untrusted, large size value, but it does not ensure that the size is within expected limits, allowing arbitrary amounts of memory to be allocated.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kubernetes Kubernetes * 1.15.9 (including)
Kubernetes Kubernetes 1.16.0 (including) 1.16.6 (including)
Kubernetes Kubernetes 1.17.0 (including) 1.17.2 (including)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-enterprise-service-catalog-1:3.11.219-1.git.1.717017c.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-0:3.11.219-1.git.0.0c21387.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-cluster-autoscaler-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.1ad3e34.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-descheduler-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.7e5b9ee.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-dockerregistry-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.8323991.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-metrics-server-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.6fe54fb.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-node-problem-detector-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.5ae8753.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-service-idler-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.958cdae.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat golang-github-openshift-oauth-proxy-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.076ae14.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.9a593f8.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.7fa9674.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat golang-github-prometheus-prometheus-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.3f6e657.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat openshift-ansible-0:3.11.219-1.git.0.8845382.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat openshift-enterprise-autoheal-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.c544df9.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat openshift-enterprise-cluster-capacity-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.ca1ee51.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat openshift-kuryr-0:3.11.219-1.git.1.717d59f.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RedHat atomic-openshift-0:3.11.248-1.git.0.92ee8ac.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 RedHat openshift4/ose-hyperkube:v4.2.29-202004140532 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 RedHat openshift-0:4.2.29-202004120346.git.0.d948116.el7 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 RedHat openshift4/ose-openshift-apiserver-rhel7:v4.2.34-202005252115 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 RedHat openshift-0:4.3.9-202003230116.git.0.ebf9a26.el8 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 RedHat openshift4/ose-hyperkube:v4.3.9-202003230345 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 RedHat openshift4/ose-openshift-apiserver-rhel7:v4.3.9-202003230345 *
Kubernetes Ubuntu eoan *
Kubernetes Ubuntu groovy *
Kubernetes Ubuntu hirsute *
Kubernetes Ubuntu impish *
Kubernetes Ubuntu kinetic *
Kubernetes Ubuntu lunar *
Kubernetes Ubuntu mantic *

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