The debugging endpoint /debug/pprof is exposed over the unauthenticated Kubelet healthz port. 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. If you are exposed we recommend upgrading to at least one of the versions listed.

Am I vulnerable?
By default, the Kubelet exposes unauthenticated healthz endpoints on port :10248, but only over localhost. If your nodes are using a non-localhost healthzBindAddress (--health-bind-address), and an older version, you may be vulnerable. If your nodes are using the default localhost healthzBindAddress, it is only exposed to pods or processes running in the host network namespace.

Run kubectl get nodes to see whether nodes are running a vulnerable version.

Run kubectl get --raw /api/v1/nodes/${NODE_NAME}/proxy/configz to check whether the "healthzBindAddress" is non-local.

How do I mitigate the vulnerability?

• Upgrade to a patched version (1.15.0+, 1.14.4+, 1.13.8+, or 1.12.10+)
• or, update node configurations to set the "healthzBindAddress" to "127.0.0.1".

#79184 fixed in 1.12.10
#79183 fixed in 1.13.8
#79182 fixed in 1.14.4
#78313 fixed in 1.15.0

Vulnerability Details
The go pprof endpoint is exposed over the Kubelet's healthz port. This debugging endpoint can potentially leak sensitive information such as internal Kubelet memory addresses and configuration, or for limited denial of service.

Thanks to Jordan Zebor of F5 Networks for reporting this problem.

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