CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2019-11254
Medium (6.5) in kubernetes kubernetes. EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in gopkg.in/yaml.v2 2.2.8.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-1050
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- kubernetes:kubernetes
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-wxc4-f4m6-wwqv | Go | gopkg.in/yaml.v2 | <2.2.8 | 2.2.8 |
| GHSA-wxc4-f4m6-wwqv | Go | github.com/go-yaml/yaml | <=2.1.0 | no fix published |
| GO-2020-0036 | Go | gopkg.in/yaml.v2 | <2.2.8 | 2.2.8 |
| GO-2020-0036 | Go | github.com/go-yaml/yaml | all versions | no fix published |
References
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89535
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-announce/ALL9s73E5ck/4yHe8J-PBAAJ
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89535
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-announce/ALL9s73E5ck/4yHe8J-PBAAJ