VMware Tanzu products update for nghttp2



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2020-11080
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Isolation Segment
Server applications / Other server solutions

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Server applications / Other server solutions

Platform Automation Toolkit
Other software / Other software solutions

Vendor VMware, Inc

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU28538

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11080

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames. A remote attacker can trigger high CPU load by sending large HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Isolation Segment: before 2.11.36, 2.13.21, 3.0.14, 4.0.5, 2.11.36, 2.11.36, 2.11.36

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs: before 2.11.42, 2.13.24, 3.0.14, 4.0.5, 2.11.42, 2.11.42, 2.11.42

Platform Automation Toolkit: before 4.4.32

CPE2.3 External links

http://tanzu.vmware.com/security/usn-6142-1


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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