CVE-2020-5423 HIGH

CVE-2020-5423: Cloud Controller is vulnerable to denial of service via YAML parsing

Vendor Cloud Foundry
Product CAPI
Weakness CWE-400
Published December 2, 2020
Last update September 17, 2024
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CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 2, 2020 CVE published
September 17, 2024 Record updated