SB2020020731 - Resource exhaustion in containerd (Alpine package)
Published: February 7, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020020731
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11253)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing YAML or JSON data in Kubernetes API server. A remote attacker can pass a malicious file to the API server and consume excessive memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Note, this vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker in Kubernetes versions prior to 1.14.0 due to default RBAC policy.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.