CVE-2020-8551

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Published 2022-02-15 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 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 the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.17.4-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`>=1.15.0,<1.15.10`	`1.15.10`
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`>=1.16.0,<1.16.6`	`1.16.6`
Go	k8s.io/kubernetes	`>=1.17.0,<1.17.2`	`1.17.2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.