CVE-2020-1702

CVE Details

Release Date:

2021-05-27

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.

See more information about CVE-2020-1702 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	3.3	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	Required
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Low

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 8 (buildah)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (cockpit-podman)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (conmon)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (container-selinux)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (containernetworking-plugins)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (criu)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (fuse-overlayfs)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (podman)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (python-podman-api)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (runc)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (skopeo)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (slirp4netns)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05
Oracle Linux version 8 (udica)	ELSA-2020-1650	2020-05-05

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