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CVE-2020-5423

HIGH
7.5CVSS
Published: 2020-12-02
Updated: 2024-11-21
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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.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-400CWE-400

Metadata

Primary Vendor
CLOUDFOUNDRY
Published
12/2/2020
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

cloudfoundry : capi-releasecloudfoundry : cf-deployment

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