CVE-2025-43915 (GCVE-0-2025-43915)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-05 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-19 15:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
In Linkerd edge releases before edge-25.2.1, and Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd releases 2.13.0–2.13.7, 2.14.0–2.14.10, 2.15.0–2.15.7, 2.16.0–2.16.4, and 2.17.0–2.17.1, resource exhaustion can occur for Linkerd proxy metrics.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-05 17:27 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
2 references
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