cve-2019-11253
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-10-17 15:40
Modified
2024-09-16 23:21
Severity
7.5 (High) - cvssV3_1 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Kubernetes API Server JSON/YAML parsing vulnerable to resource exhaustion attack
References
SourceURLTags
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3239Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3811Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3905Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/83253Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/kubernetes-security-announce/jk8polzSUxs
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0006/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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KubernetesKubernetes
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