CVE-2020-8551

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 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 the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

• CWE-789
• CWE-770

• https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89377Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/kubernetes-security-announce/2UOlsba2g0s
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3SOCLOPTSYABTE4CLTSPDIFE6ZZZR4LX/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89377Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/kubernetes-security-announce/2UOlsba2g0s
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3SOCLOPTSYABTE4CLTSPDIFE6ZZZR4LX/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/Third Party Advisory

Published

Mar 27, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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