CVE-2019-11254: Kubernetes

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Kubernetes API Server component in versions 1.1-1.14, and versions prior to 1.15.10, 1.16.7 and 1.17.3 allows an authorized user who sends malicious YAML payloads to cause the kube-apiserver to consume excessive CPU cycles while parsing YAML.

Affected products

• Kubernetes Kubernetes: before 1.15.10 (fixed in 1.15.10); from 1.16.0, before 1.16.7 (fixed in 1.16.7); from 1.17.0, before 1.17.3 (fixed in 1.17.3)

Published 2020-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.