The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1276 advisory.

  - kubernetes: crafted requests to kubelet API allow for memory exhaustion (CVE-2020-8551)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be
    vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only
    API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.
    (CVE-2020-8551)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1276 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing     Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private     cloud deployments.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kubernetes: crafted requests to kubelet API allowed for memory exhaustion (CVE-2020-8551)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

- Security fix for CVE-2020-8551, CVE-2020-8552,     CVE-2020-8555, CVE-2020-8945

  - Rebase to head of usptream 3.11 branch

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
312415	RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.10 openshift (RHSA-2020:1276)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
418150	SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-qhm4-jxv7-j9pq)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
418150	SCA: security update for k8s.io/kubernetes (GHSA-qhm4-jxv7-j9pq)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
170287	RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.10 openshift (RHSA-2020:1276)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
138918	Fedora 32 : origin (2020-aeea04cd13)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2020-8551

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium

high