- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Kubernetes API server component in versions prior to 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 successful API requests.
Timeline
ID reserved
By kubernetes
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubernetesCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < v1.17.3
- affected unspecified – < v1.16.7
- affected unspecified – < v1.15.10
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gok8s.io/apiserverGHSA-82hx-w2r5-c2wq (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/kubernetes-security-announce/2UOlsba2g0s (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/89378 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200413-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-aeea04cd13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-0898 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-82hx-w2r5-c2wq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-8552)Record last updated .