Resource exhaustion in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 packages

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU87538

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28180

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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 decompressing JWE with Decrypt or DecryptMulti. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

openshift-clients (Red Hat package): before 4.15.0-202405021207.p0.g7693229.assembly.stream.el9

openshift (Red Hat package): before 4.15.0-202405030637.p0.g8ca71f7.assembly.stream.el9

cri-o (Red Hat package): before 1.28.6-5.rhaos4.15.gita02fb1e.el9

conmon-rs (Red Hat package): before 0.6.3-1.rhaos4.15.el9

kernel-rt (Red Hat package): before 5.14.0-284.66.1.rt14.351.el9_2

kernel (Red Hat package): before 5.14.0-284.66.1.el9_2

External links

http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2776

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.