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Denial of Service (DoS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/server Open this link in a new tab

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    EPSS 0.13% (49th percentile)
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6.5 medium
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4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMKUBERNETESKUBERNETESPKGKUBELETSERVER-561045
  • published 24 Mar 2020
  • disclosed 24 Mar 2020
  • credit Henrik Schmidt
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Introduced: 24 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-8551 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/server is a package containing functions related to serving Kubelet's external interface.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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