What is CVE-2020-1750?

CVE-2020-1750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Machine-Config-Operator, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-07.

How severe is CVE-2020-1750?

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

Is CVE-2020-1750 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Machine-Config-Operator

CVE-2020-1750

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.009 (55.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Redhat Machine-config-operator
N/a Machine-config-operator-container — versions openshift/machine-config-operator 4.4.3, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.3.25, openshift/machine-config-operator 4.2.36

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

n0-traces/cve_

References

secalert@redhat.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-1750?: CVE-2020-1750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Machine-Config-Operator, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-06-07.
How severe is CVE-2020-1750?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-1750 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.