CVE-2020-8558Unprotected Alternate Channel in Kubernetes

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
CNA5.4
EPSS
20.1%
top 4.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 27
Latest updateAug 21

Description

The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, and 1.18.0-1.18.3 were found to contain a security issue which allows adjacent hosts to reach TCP and UDP services bound to 127.0.0.1 running on the node or in the node's network namespace. Such a service is generally thought to be reachable only by other processes on the same host, but due to this defeect, could be reachable by other hosts on the same LAN as the node, or by containers running on the same node as the

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

Gok8s.io/kubernetes1.18.01.18.4+2
Debiankubernetes/kubernetes< 1.18.5-1+3
NVDkubernetes/kubernetes1.1.01.16.10+2
CVEListV5kubernetes/kubernetes18 versions+17

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
Improper Authentication in Kubernetes in k8s.io/kubernetes2024-08-21
GHSA
Improper Authentication in Kubernetes2022-02-15
OSV
Improper Authentication in Kubernetes2022-02-15
OSV
CVE-2020-8558: The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 12020-07-27
CVEList
Kubernetes node setting allows for neighboring hosts to bypass localhost boundary2020-07-27

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kubernetes: node localhost services reachable via martian packets2020-07-08
Debian
CVE-2020-8558: kubernetes - The Kubelet and kube-proxy components in versions 1.1.0-1.16.10, 1.17.0-1.17.6, ...2020

🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Unit42
Kubernetes Vulnerability Puts Clusters at Risk of Takeover (CVE-2020-8558)2020-07-27
Unit42
Kubernetes Vulnerability Puts Clusters at Risk of Takeover (CVE-2020-8558)2020-07-27

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-8558 origin: kubernetes: node localhost services reachable via martian packets [fedora-all]2020-07-15
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-8558 kubernetes: node localhost services reachable via martian packets2020-06-03
CVE-2020-8558 — Unprotected Alternate Channel | cvebase