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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2025-0426 EUVD-2025-1661GHSA-jgfp-53c3-624wGO-2025-3465

Node Denial of Service via kubelet Checkpoint API

Published Feb 13, 2025 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by kubernetes

Description

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes where a large number of container checkpoint requests made to the unauthenticated kubelet read-only HTTP endpoint may cause a Node Denial of Service by filling the Node's disk.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Kubernetes kubelet 1.32.0 – ≤ 1.32.1, 1.31.0 – ≤ 1.31.5, 1.30.0 – ≤ 1.30.9 1.32.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 —
Debian 13 kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 —
Debian 12 kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250312T181707-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14889-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed kubernetes1.29 1.29.14-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14816-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed kubernetes1.30 1.30.10-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14817-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed kubernetes1.31 1.31.6-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14818-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed kubernetes1.32 1.32.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14819-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20251230T014957-150000.1.134.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0037-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.21 kubernetes 1.31.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 kubernetes 1.30.9-r0 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kubernetes 1.30.10-1 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling argo-rollouts +1 1.8.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling argocd-image-updater 0.17.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling aws-efs-csi-driver 2.1.7-r0 —
Wolfi rolling emissary 3.10.0-r12 —
Wolfi rolling ip-masq-agent 2.12.0-r5 —
Wolfi rolling kapp 0.64.0-r4 —
Wolfi rolling kubectl-1.27 +5 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling kubectl-1.30 +2 1.30.10-r0 —
Wolfi rolling kubectl-1.31 +1 1.31.6-r0 —
Wolfi rolling kubectl-1.32 +1 1.32.2-r0 —
Wolfi rolling kubernetes-csi-driver-hostpath 1.15.0-r6 —
Wolfi rolling kubernetes-csi-driver-nfs 4.12.1-r1 —
Wolfi rolling kubernetes-dns-node-cache 1.25.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling local-static-provisioner +3 2.7.0-r13 —
Wolfi rolling nodetaint 0.0.4-r28 —
Wolfi rolling rancher-fleet +4 0.11.3-r3 —
Wolfi rolling spark-operator +1 2.1.0-r6 —
Wolfi rolling vcluster +2 0.26.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling yunikorn-k8shim 1.6.1-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go k8s.io/kubernetes >= 1.32.0, < 1.32.2 1.32.2 GHSA-jgfp-53c3-624w
Go k8s.io/kubernetes >= 1.31.0, < 1.31.6 1.31.6 GHSA-jgfp-53c3-624w
Go k8s.io/kubernetes >= 1.30.0, < 1.30.10 1.30.10 GHSA-jgfp-53c3-624w
Go k8s.io/kubernetes < 1.29.14 1.29.14 GHSA-jgfp-53c3-624w
Go k8s.io/kubernetes < 1.29.14 · >= 1.30.0, < 1.30.10 · >= 1.31.0, < 1.31.6 · >= 1.32.0, < 1.32.2 1.29.14, 1.30.10, 1.31.6, 1.32.2 GO-2025-3465

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