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Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop in Kubernetes

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 20, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 9, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/go-yaml/yaml (Go)

Affected versions

<= 2.1.0

Patched versions

None
gomod gopkg.in/yaml.v2 (Go)
< 2.2.8
2.2.8

Description

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.

References

Reviewed May 7, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 20, 2021
Last updated Feb 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.104%
(44th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-11254

GHSA ID

GHSA-wxc4-f4m6-wwqv

Source code

No known source code
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