CVE-2022-31078

KubeEdge CloudCore Router memory exhaustion

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 11, 2022 at 08:25 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:44 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsKubeedgeKubeedge

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Prior to versions 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4, the CloudCore Router does not impose a limit on the size of responses to requests made by the REST handler. An attacker could use this weakness to make a request that will return an HTTP response with a large body and cause DoS of CloudCore. In the HTTP Handler API, the rest handler makes a request to a pre-specified handle. The handle will return an HTTP response that is then read into memory. The consequence of the exhaustion is that CloudCore will be in a denial of service. Only an authenticated user of the cloud can make an attack. It will be affected only when users enable `router` module in the config file `cloudcore.yaml`. This bug has been fixed in Kubeedge 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4. As a workaround, disable the router switch in the config file `cloudcore.yaml`.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.9.41.10.0 ≤ v < 1.10.21.11.0 ≤ v < 1.11.1
Affected range stops below 1.10.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.11.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.9.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 1.10.2v < 1.9.4= 1.11.0
Affected range stops below 1.10.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.9.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-770

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