🛡️ CVE-2020-8552 — apiserver

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Kubernetes API Server DoS Via API Requests

The Kubernetes API server component in Kubernetes versions prior to 1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via successful API requests.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-8552 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2020-8552 is recorded against 1 package.

  • k8s.io/apiserver

Timeline and source

Published on 15 February 2022 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
groups.google.com (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-02-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
k8s.io/apiserver — —

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