CVE-2020-1702Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Project Containers-image

Severity
3.3LOWNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 61.82%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMay 27
Latest updateMay 24

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5containers/imagecontainers-image 5.2.0

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 8.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f6vj-xx8j-fqmq: A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux2022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2020-1702: A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux2021-05-27

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory2020-01-20

💬Community

5
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1702 cri-o: containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory [fedora-31]2020-01-29
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1702 podman: containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory [fedora-31]2020-01-20
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1702 skopeo: containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory [fedora-31]2020-01-20
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1702 buildah: containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory [fedora-31]2020-01-20
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-1702 containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory2020-01-20
CVE-2020-1702 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption | cvebase