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CVE-2020-5423

Published: Dec 2, 2020

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.5

HIGH

Description

CAPI (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.

VendorProductVersions

Cloud Foundry

CAPI

affected
All - < 1.101.0

Cloud Foundry

CF Deployment

affected
All - < 15.0.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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