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Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 20:12:04 -0600
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Diogo Mónica <diogo.monica () docker com> wrote:
A few weeks ago (Aug 4, 2016), a CVE (CVE-2016-6595) describing a DoS on docker swarm got issued. We believe this not a real issue, and would like to have the CVE rescinded. The person reporting this "vulnerability" is exhausting the resources of a remote manager by doing hundreds of join/leave operations without removing the state that is left by old nodes. At some point the manager obviously stops being able to accept new nodes, since it runs out of memory. Given that both for Docker swarm and for Docker Swarmkit nodes are *required* to provide a secret token (it's actually the only mode of operation), this means that no adversary can simply join nodes and exhaust manager resources. We can't do anything about a manager running out of memory and not being able to add new legitimate nodes to the system. This is merely a resource provisioning issue, and definitely not a CVE worthy vulnerability.
I checked the documentation and it looks like a worker node is only supposed to work and is not supposed to be able to administer the swarm. As such this is a trust boundary violation, and needs a CVE.
Thank you, -- Diogo Mónica
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- cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node 张开翔 (Jul 29)
- Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node cve-assign (Aug 03)
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- Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Diogo Mónica (Sep 01)
- Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Kurt Seifried (Sep 01)
- Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Diogo Monica (Sep 01)
- Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Kurt Seifried (Sep 01)
- Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Diogo Mónica (Sep 02)
- Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Kurt Seifried (Sep 02)
- Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Diogo Mónica (Sep 05)
- Re: Re: cve request: docker swarmkit Dos occurs by repeatly joining and quitting swam cluster as a node Kurt Seifried (Sep 01)