CVE-2020-15114 (GCVE-0-2020-15114)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-06 22:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:08
VLAI
Title
Denial of Service in etcd
Summary
In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, the etcd gateway is a simple TCP proxy to allow for basic service discovery and access. However, it is possible to include the gateway address as an endpoint. This results in a denial of service, since the endpoint can become stuck in a loop of requesting itself until there are no more available file descriptors to accept connections on the gateway.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - {"CWE-400":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"}
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
etcd-io etcd Affected: < 3.3.23
Affected: < 3.4.10
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