CVE-2020-14040
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Description
A denial of service vulnerability was found in the golang.org/x/text library. A library or application must use one of the vulnerable functions, such as unicode.Transform, transform.String, or transform.Byte, to be susceptible to this vulnerability. If an attacker is able to supply specific characters or strings to the vulnerable application, there is the potential to cause an infinite loop to occur using more memory, resulting in a denial of service.
Statement
OpenShift ServiceMesh (OSSM) 1.0 is Out Of Support Scope (OOSS) for Moderate and Low impact vulnerabilities. Jaeger was packaged with ServiceMesh in 1.0, and hence is also marked OOSS, but the Jaeger-Operator is a standalone product and is affected by this vulnerability.
Because Service Telemetry Framework does not directly use unicode.UTF16, no update will be provided at this time for STF's sg-core-container.
Additional information
- Bugzilla 1853652: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash
- CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
- FAQ: Frequently asked questions about CVE-2020-14040
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
Important note
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| Red Hat | NVD | |
|---|---|---|
CVSS v3 Base Score | 7.5 | 7.5 |
Attack Vector | Network | Network |
Attack Complexity | Low | Low |
Privileges Required | None | None |
User Interaction | None | None |
Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged |
Confidentiality Impact | None | None |
Integrity Impact | None | None |
Availability Impact | High | High |
CVSS v3 Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Frequently Asked Questions
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