cve-2020-5423
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-02 01:55
Modified
2024-09-17 03:43
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
CAPI (Cloud Controller) versions prior to 1.101.0 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in which an unauthenticated malicious attacker can send specially-crafted YAML files to certain endpoints, causing the YAML parser to consume excessive CPU and RAM.
References
security@pivotal.iohttps://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-5423Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-5423Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cloud Foundry CF Deployment Version: All   < 15.0.0
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