GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-pmqp-h87c-mr78 XML Entity Expansion and Improper Input Validation in Kubernetes API server

HIGH Published 2021-05-18 Modified 2026-02-27 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-11253
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
k8s.io/kubernetes
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-776
Reviewed
2021-05-17

Affected packages

• Go k8s.io/kubernetes: >= 1.0.0, < 1.13.12 → fixed in 1.13.12 • Go k8s.io/kubernetes: >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.8 → fixed in 1.14.8 • Go k8s.io/kubernetes: >= 1.15.0, < 1.15.5 → fixed in 1.15.5 • Go k8s.io/kubernetes: >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.2 → fixed in 1.16.2

Description

Improper input validation in the Kubernetes API server in versions v1.0-1.12 and versions prior to v1.13.12, v1.14.8, v1.15.5, and v1.16.2 allows authorized users to send malicious YAML or JSON payloads, causing the API server to consume excessive CPU or memory, potentially crashing and becoming unavailable. Prior to v1.14.0, default RBAC policy authorized anonymous users to submit requests that could trigger this vulnerability. Clusters upgraded from a version prior to v1.14.0 keep the more permissive policy by default for backwards compatibility. Specific Go Packages Affected k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/apiserver

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-11253 Improper input validation in the Kubernetes API server in versions v1.0-1.12 and versions prior to v1.13.12, v1.14.8, v1.15.5, and v1.16.2… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness

References