CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-5423
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• cloudfoundry capi-release (< 1.101.0)
• cloudfoundry cf-deployment (< 15.0.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-5423 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-5423 Vendor Advisory