CVE-2020-1702

containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory

Published May 27, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 3.3 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-12557 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00233}

epss

{'score': 0.00265}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 6:46 AM
Reserved
Nov 27, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 27, 2021, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:02 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Jan 20, 2020, 12:00 AM