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CVE-2020-5420 (GCVE-0-2020-5420)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-03 01:10 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:06
VLAI
Title
Gorouter is vulnerable to DoS attack via invalid HTTP responses
Summary
Cloud Foundry Routing (Gorouter) versions prior to 0.206.0 allow a malicious developer with "cf push" access to cause denial-of-service to the CF cluster by pushing an app that returns specially crafted HTTP responses that crash the Gorouters.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Cloud Foundry Routing Affected: All , < 0.206.0 (custom)
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Cloud Foundry CF Deployment Affected: All , < 13.15.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2020-09-01 00:00
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