CVE-2015-5250

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-09-03
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1259867: CVE-2015-5250 OpenShift: Malformed JSON can cause API process crash
It was found that improper error handling in the API server could cause the master process to crash. A user with network access to the master could use this flaw to crash the master process.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5250 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 (openshift) RHSA-2015:1736 2015-09-03

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 Security Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Jordan Liggitt of the Red Hat OpenShift Team for reporting this issue.

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