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CVE-2020-8562
published 2022-02-01

CVE-2020-8562: As mitigations to a report from 2019 and CVE-2020-8555, Kubernetes attempts to prevent proxied connections from accessing link-local or localhost networks when…

PriorityP412low3.1CVSS 3.1
AVNACHPRLUINSUCLINAN
EPSS
1.08%
61.0th percentile
As mitigations to a report from 2019 and CVE-2020-8555, Kubernetes attempts to prevent proxied connections from accessing link-local or localhost networks when making user-driven connections to Services, Pods, Nodes, or StorageClass service providers. As part of this mitigation Kubernetes does a DNS name resolution check and validates that response IPs are not in the link-local (169.254.0.0/16) or localhost (127.0.0.0/8) range. Kubernetes then performs a second DNS resolution without validation for the actual connection. If a non-standard DNS server returns different non-cached responses, a user may be able to bypass the proxy IP restriction and access private networks on the control plane.

Affected

13 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiankubernetes< kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 (bookworm)kubernetes 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 (bookworm)
k8s.iokubernetes0 – 1.18.19
k8s.iokubernetes1.19.0 – 1.19.11
k8s.iokubernetes1.20.0 – 1.20.7
k8s.iokubernetes1.21.0 – 1.21.1
kuberneteskubernetes<= 1.18.18
kuberneteskubernetes
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes>= 0 < 1.20.5+really1.20.2-11.20.5+really1.20.2-1
kuberneteskubernetes1.19.0 – 1.19.10
kuberneteskubernetes1.20.0 – 1.20.6

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.13.1LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.03.5LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
ghsa6.3MEDIUM
osv6.3MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.3MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.3MEDIUM
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