Exposed pprof

By
Jijith Rajan
Published on
10 Jan 2022
Vulnerability

Description

The unauthenticated Kubelet healthz port exposes the debugging endpoint /debug/pprof. The Kubelet’s healthz port exposes the go pprof endpoint.

Debugging endpoint can potentially leak sensitive information such as internal Kubelet memory addresses and configuration, or for limited denial of service. Versions prior to 1.15.0, 1.14.4, 1.13.8, and 1.12.10 are affected. The issue is of medium severity, but not exposed by the default configuration.

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Written by
Jijith Rajan
Jijith Rajan
Cyber Security Engineer
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