Resource exhaustion in CF Deployment and Routing Release - CVE-2020-5416
Published: September 1, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU46180
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5416
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 used in a deployment with NGINX reverse proxies in front of the Gorouters. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
CF Deployment
Routing Release
Routing Release
How to mitigate CVE-2020-5416
Install updates from vendor's website.
CF Deployment - update to 13.13.0
Routing Release - update to 0.204.0
Routing Release - update to 0.204.0