CVE-2019-11254 (GCVE-0-2019-11254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-01 20:30
Modified
2024-09-16 23:16
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1050 - Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Kubernetes Kubernetes Version: prior to 1.15.10
Version: prior to 1.16.7
Version: prior to 1.17.3
Version: 1.1
Version: 1.2
Version: 1.3
Version: 1.4
Version: 1.5
Version: 1.6
Version: 1.7
Version: 1.8
Version: 1.9
Version: 1.10
Version: 1.11
Version: 1.12
Version: 1.13
Version: 1.14
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