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CVE-2020-8551 Moderate

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling and Uncontrolled Memory Allocation in Kubernetes

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

Exploit probability 1.1%
Published February 15, 2022
Required by Not available
Last source change August 7, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Go k8s.io/kubernetes
Go k8s.io/kubernetes
Unknown Unknown

39 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-8551

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2022-0867

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling and Uncontrolled Memory Allocation in Kubernetes in k8s.io/kubernetes

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-qhm4-jxv7-j9pq

The Kubelet component in versions 1.15.0-1.15.9, 1.16.0-1.16.6, and 1.17.0-1.17.2 has been found to be vulnerable to a denial of service attack via the kubelet API, including the unauthenticated HTTP read-only API typically served on port 10255, and the authenticated HTTPS API typically served on port 10250.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence