Vulnerability · Published Jun 7, 2021 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-1750

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in machine-config-operator-container. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 41.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in the machine-config-operator that causes an OpenShift node to become unresponsive when a container consumes a large amount of memory. An attacker could use this flaw to deny access to schedule new pods in the OpenShift cluster. This was fixed in openshift/machine-config-operator 4.4.3, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.3.25, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.2.36.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a machine-config-operator-container openshift/machine-config-operator 4.4.3, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.3.25, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.2.36

Weakness: CWE-400

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