What is CVE-2020-15127?

CVE-2020-15127 is a high-severity vulnerability in Projectcontour Contour, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2020-15127?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Projectcontour Contour

CVE-2020-15127

In Contour ( Ingress controller for Kubernetes) before version 1.7.0, a bad actor can shut down all instances of Envoy, essentially killing the entire ingress data plane. GET requests to /shutdown on port 8090 of the Envoy pod initiate Env…

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.003 (54.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Projectcontour Contour — versions < 1.7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function

References

github.com/projectcontour/contour/security/advisories/GHSA-mjp8-x484-pm3r (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.7.0 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-15127?: CVE-2020-15127 is a high-severity vulnerability in Projectcontour Contour, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2020-15127?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.