SB2020090119 - Denial of service in Cloud Foundry Foundation Routing and CF Deployment 



SB2020090119 - Denial of service in Cloud Foundry Foundation Routing and CF Deployment

Published: September 1, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020090119
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5416)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources, when used in a deployment with NGINX reverse proxies in front of the Gorouters. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.