CVE-2018-1070 Denial of service in routing
A malicious user can cause a Denial of Service for other users by exploiting improper input validation in the OpenShift Routing configuration.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-1070?
CVE-2018-1070 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Openshift Container Platform, published on 12 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
routing before version 3.10 is vulnerable to an improper input validation of the Openshift Routing configuration which can cause an entire shard to be brought down. A malicious user can use this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service attack for other users of the router shard.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1070?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Openshift Container Platform.
How do I fix CVE-2018-1070?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-1070 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1070 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openshift Container Platform
- CVE-2020-27836 Missing authorization in cluster-ingress-operator
- CVE-2018-1085 Misconfiguration in openshift-ansible
- CVE-2026-54099 Privilege escalation in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- CVE-2026-1784 Ose-cluster-ingress-operator: remote code execution through haproxy configuration injection
- CVE-2021-20182 Privilege escalation in openshift
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mfw5-7x4h-m4v5.