CVE-2021-20199

podman: Remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost

Published Feb 2, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS 1.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Rootless containers run with Podman, receive all traffic with a source IP address of 127.0.0.1 (including from remote hosts). This impacts containerized applications that trust localhost (127.0.01) connections by default and do not require authentication. This issue affects Podman 1.8.0 onwards.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1086 Rootless containers run with Podman, receive all traffic with a source IP address of 127.0.0.1 (including from remote hosts). This impacts containerized applications that trust localhost (127.0.01) connections by default and do not require authentication. This issue affects Podman 1.8.0 onwards.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-grh6-q6m2-rh72 Podman Origin Validation Error
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 5:30 PM
Reserved
Dec 17, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 2, 2021, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:33 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jan 1, 2021, 12:00 AM