What is CVE-2020-14336?

CVE-2020-14336 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Container Platform, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-14336?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Openshift Container Platform

CVE-2020-14336

A flaw was found in the Restricted Security Context Constraints (SCC), where it allows pods to craft custom network packets. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster if they can deploy pods. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Published 2021-06-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (59.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 59th percentile — 59.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Openshift Container Platform — versions 3.11, 4.5.16, 4.6
Openshift — versions Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.16

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Mitigation, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-14336?: CVE-2020-14336 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Container Platform, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-14336?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.