CVE-2020-5423

Summary

CVECVE-2020-5423
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-02 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-04 18:39:00 UTC
DescriptionCAPI (Cloud Controller) versions prior to 1.101.0 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in which an unauthenticated malicious attacker can send specially-crafted YAML files to certain endpoints, causing the YAML parser to consume excessive CPU and RAM.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cloudfoundry Capi-release All All All All
Application Cloudfoundry Capi-release All All All All
Application Cloudfoundry Cf-deployment All All All All
Application Cloudfoundry Cf-deployment All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-5423: Cloud Controller is vulnerable to denial of service via YAML parsing | Cloud Foundry CONFIRM www.cloudfoundry.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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