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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2023-48713 json

Knative Serving vulnerable to attacker-controlled pod causing denial of service of autoscaler

published 2023-11-27 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-qmvj-4qr9-v547 , GO-2023-2355 , EUVD-2023-3019

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Knative Serving builds on Kubernetes to support deploying and serving of applications and functions as serverless containers. An attacker who controls a pod to a degree where they can control the responses from the /metrics endpoint can cause Denial-of-Service of the autoscaler from an unbound memory allocation bug. This is a DoS vulnerability, where a non-privileged Knative user can cause a DoS for the cluster. This issue has been patched in version 0.39.0.

Patch / fix

  • go knative.dev/serving 0.39.0
  • knative serving 1.10.5, 1.11.3

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go knative.dev/serving
<0.39.0
0.39.0

Affected products

  • knative serving

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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