CVE-2020-1702

Published: May 27, 2021Modified: Nov 21, 2024

3.3

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 1.4

Source: NVD

Description

A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux using podman, or OpenShift Container Platform. An attacker can use this flaw to trick a user, with privileges to pull container images, into crashing the process responsible for pulling the image. This flaw affects containers-image versions before 5.2.0.

Affected (2)

Products: Containers Image Project: Containers Image · Redhat: Enterprise Linux

Containers Image Project

1 product

Containers Image

1 product

Enterprise Linux

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Containers Image Project Containers Image	Before 5.2.0

Configuration B

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Redhat Enterprise Linux	Version 8.0

Related CWEs

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (2)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792796

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Issue Tracking

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1792796

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Issue Tracking

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