7.8

CVE-2020-5423: cloud foundry capi Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.8v2.0HighModified
Published 02-12-2020Last modified 17-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-5423 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in cloud foundry capi. EPSS estimates a 1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.15%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-12-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 2 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

66%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.15% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.15%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Cloud foundry2 products
Cloudfoundry2 products

2 vendors · 4 products

References

1 links