CVE-2020-8552

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.07%

Kubernetes API Server DoS Via API Requests

Published: 2/15/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 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 successful API requests.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/kubernetesfrom 0, < 1.17.4-1
Go/k8s.io/apiserverfrom 0, < 0.15.10

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (8)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8552
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8552
WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commit/5978856c4c7f10737a11c9540fe60b8475beecbb
WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89378
WEBhttps://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87669
WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-security-announce/2UOlsba2g0s
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3SOCLOPTSYABTE4CLTSPDIFE6ZZZR4LX
WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003