FKIE_CVE-2019-11254

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-04-01 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:12
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89535Third Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-announce/ALL9s73E5ck/4yHe8J-PBAAJThird Party Advisory
jordan@liggitt.nethttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89535Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-announce/ALL9s73E5ck/4yHe8J-PBAAJThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kubernetes kubernetes *
kubernetes kubernetes *
kubernetes kubernetes *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T02:12:37.900",
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