The Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers flaw ...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Jan 17, 2023
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 10, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 17, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jan 17, 2023
Last updated
Feb 10, 2023
The Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers flaw (CVE-2016-2183) was reported for the health checks port (9979) on etcd grpc-proxy component. Even though the CVE-2016-2183 has been fixed in the etcd components, to enable periodic health checks from kubelet, it was necessary to open up a new port (9979) on etcd grpc-proxy, hence this port might be considered as still vulnerable to the same type of vulnerability. The health checks on etcd grpc-proxy do not contain sensitive data (only metrics data), therefore the potential impact related to this vulnerability is minimal. The CVE-2023-0296 has been assigned to this issue to track the permanent fix in the etcd component.
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