CVE-2019-11254

medium

Description

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

Advisories
More

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-announce/ALL9s73E5ck/4yHe8J-PBAAJ

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89535

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wxc4-f4m6-wwqv

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-2608

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-04-01

Updated: 2026-06-17

Named Vulnerability: GO-2020-0036Named Vulnerability: GHSA-wxc4-f4m6-wwqv

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H