Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-16843 - Unspecified vulnerability in Amazon Firecracker 0.20.0/0.21.0/0.21.1

047910
CVSS 5.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
high complexity
amazon

Summary

In Firecracker 0.20.x before 0.20.1 and 0.21.x before 0.21.2, the network stack can freeze under heavy ingress traffic. This can result in a denial of service on the microVM when it is configured with a single network interface, and an availability problem for the microVM network interface on which the issue is triggered.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Amazon
3