{"id":"CVE-2019-11248","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-11248","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:27:45.753Z","title":"The debugging endpoint /debug/pprof is exposed over the unauthenticated Kubelet healthz port.","description":"The debugging endpoint /debug/pprof is exposed over the unauthenticated Kubelet healthz port. 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. 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.","published":"2019-08-29T01:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:12:37.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"jordan@liggitt.net","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-419","CWE-862"],"affected":["kubernetes/kubernetes"],"epss":{"score":0.7506,"percentile":0.99506,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 75.1%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/81023","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-security-announce/pKELclHIov8/BEDtRELACQAJ","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190919-0003/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"jordan@liggitt.net"},{"url":"https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/81023","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-security-announce/pKELclHIov8/BEDtRELACQAJ","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190919-0003/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11248","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}