CVE-2020-5416

CF clusters with NGINX in front of them may be vulnerable to DoS

Description

Cloud Foundry Routing (Gorouter), versions prior to 0.204.0, when used in a deployment with NGINX reverse proxies in front of the Gorouters, is potentially vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks in which an unauthenticated malicious attacker can send specially-crafted HTTP requests that may cause the Gorouters to be dropped from the NGINX backend pool.

Category

6.5
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.50%
Vendor Advisory cloudfoundry.org
Affected: Cloud Foundry Routing
Affected: Cloud Foundry CF Deployment
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-5416 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2020-5416?
CVE-2020-5416 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2020-5416?
To fix CVE-2020-5416, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2020-5416 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2020-5416 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2020-5416?
CVE-2020-5416 affects Cloud Foundry Routing, Cloud Foundry CF Deployment.
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