CVE-2018-10885 Denial of service in atomic-openshift

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

A malicious network-policy configuration can crash OpenShift Routing, causing a Denial of Service on the cluster.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2018-10885?

CVE-2018-10885 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Openshift, published on 5 Jul 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In atomic-openshift before version 3.10.9 a malicious network-policy configuration can cause Openshift Routing to crash when using ovs-networkpolicy plugin. An attacker can use this flaw to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on an Openshift 3.9, or 3.7 Cluster.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10885?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Openshift.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10885?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-10885 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2018-10885 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10885 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Openshift vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-66vh-fjrh-f335.

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