CVE-2018-1002104 (GCVE-0-2018-1002104)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-14 20:15 – Updated: 2024-09-16 21:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Versions < 1.5 of the Kubernetes ingress default backend, which handles invalid ingress traffic, exposed prometheus metrics publicly.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-215 - Information Exposure Through Debug Information
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/3125 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes | k8s.gcr.io/defaultbackend |
Affected:
defaultbackend , < 1.5
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2018-09-25 00:00
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