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RHSA-2020:2439

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2020-06-17 20:16 - Updated: 2025-11-21 18:14

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.25 security update

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Topic: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.3.25 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Details: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. Security Fix(es): * machine-config-operator-container: A flaw in the machine-config-operator caused an OpenShift node to become unresponsive when a container consumes a large amount of memory (CVE-2020-1750) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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CVE-2020-1750

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected products

Fixed 3 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: 7Server-RH7-RHOSE-4.3:openshift4/ose-machine-config-operator@sha256:0a0b498540702549d1503cb64069f930fab6cac67c2d08e765444bced93fc988_ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 7Server-RH7-RHOSE-4.3:openshift4/ose-machine-config-operator@sha256:af9fa4e8cd5614e66f55d411b91310a592d54a96331fa9b2408a10f916520975_amd64	—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 7Server-RH7-RHOSE-4.3:openshift4/ose-machine-config-operator@sha256:f62ec2cdd00a938379f5734e765df1fe2a450c374af160d005dc8ba43e4b9878_s390x	—	Vendor Fix fix

Threats

Impact Moderate

References

8 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2439	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classi…	external
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808130	external
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1750	self
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808130	external
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1750	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1750	external

Acknowledgments

IBM Cheryl A Fillekes

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CVE-2020-1750 (GCVE-0-2020-1750)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-07 20:18 – Updated: 2024-08-04 06:46

Summary

A flaw was found in the machine-config-operator that causes an OpenShift node to become unresponsive when a container consumes a large amount of memory. An attacker could use this flaw to deny access to schedule new pods in the OpenShift cluster. This was fixed in openshift/machine-config-operator 4.4.3, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.3.25, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.2.36.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-400

Assigner

redhat

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808130	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	machine-config-operator-container	Affected: openshift/machine-config-operator 4.4.3, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.3.25, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.2.36

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      }
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
    "assignerOrgId": "53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749",
    "assignerShortName": "redhat",
    "cveId": "CVE-2020-1750",
    "datePublished": "2021-06-07T20:18:34.000Z",
    "dateReserved": "2019-11-27T00:00:00.000Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-04T06:46:30.892Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1"
}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

Action not permitted

RHSA-2020:2439

CVE-2020-1750 (GCVE-0-2020-1750)

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature