VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-5423

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.15%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-12-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@pivotal.io: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-400

Primary references