#VU24939 Resource exhaustion in Nomad and Nomad Enterprise - CVE-2020-7218
Published: February 5, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24939
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2020-7218
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Nomad
Nomad Enterprise
Nomad
Nomad Enterprise
Software vendor:
HashiCorp
HashiCorp
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to unbounded resource usage via HTTP and RPC services. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and crash the target server.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.