VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-1702

CVSS score3.3 LOW
EPSS probability0.69%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-05-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references