CVE-2020-5401 Cloud Foundry GoRouter is vulnerable to cache poisoning
Malicious clients can poison the GoRouter cache by sending invalid headers, causing denial of service for legitimate users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-5401?
CVE-2020-5401 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cloud Foundry Routing, published on 27 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Cloud Foundry Routing Release, versions prior to 0.197.0, contains GoRouter, which allows malicious clients to send invalid headers, causing caching layers to reject subsequent legitimate clients trying to access the app.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5401?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cloudfoundry Routing Release.
How do I fix CVE-2020-5401?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5401 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-5401 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5401 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cloud Foundry Routing
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jgr4-5mrv-w8ph.