CVE-2023-37900 (GCVE-0-2023-37900)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-27 15:50 – Updated: 2024-10-15 15:29
VLAI
Title
Crossplane vulnerable to denial of service from large image
Summary
Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes without needing to write code. In versions prior to 1.11.5, 1.12.3, and 1.13.0, a high-privileged user could create a Package referencing an arbitrarily large image containing that Crossplane would then parse, possibly resulting in exhausting all the available memory and therefore in the container being OOMKilled. The impact is limited due to the high privileges required to be able to create the Package and the eventually consistency nature of controller. This issue is fixed in versions 1.11.5, 1.12.3, and 1.13.0.
Severity
3.4 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-15 14:39 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8053 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
crossplane crossplane Affected: < 1.11.5
Affected: >= 1.12.0, < 1.12.3
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