CVE-2019-11254 (GCVE-0-2019-11254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-01 20:30 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Kubernetes API Server denial of service vulnerability from malicious YAML payloads
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-1050 - Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89535 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-announ… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2020041… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | Kubernetes |
Affected:
prior to 1.15.10
Affected: prior to 1.16.7 Affected: prior to 1.17.3 Affected: 1.1 Affected: 1.2 Affected: 1.3 Affected: 1.4 Affected: 1.5 Affected: 1.6 Affected: 1.7 Affected: 1.8 Affected: 1.9 Affected: 1.10 Affected: 1.11 Affected: 1.12 Affected: 1.13 Affected: 1.14 |
guessed |
Date Public
2020-03-31 00:00
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"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2019-11254",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2019-11254.json",
"version": "11"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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