#VU19939 Resource exhaustion in grpc-ts-health-check 

 

#VU19939 Resource exhaustion in grpc-ts-health-check

Published: August 6, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19939
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
grpc-ts-health-check
Software vendor:
Nicolas Pearson

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to the package exposes an API endpoint. A remote attacker can set the service's health status to failing, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack as Kubernetes blocks traffic to services with a failing status.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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