Is CVE-2020-1702 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-1702 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-1702?

CVE-2020-1702 has a CVSS v3 base score of 3.3 (LOW).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-1702?

CVE-2020-1702 has an EPSS score of 0.69% (48th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-1702?

Upgrade containers-image to 5.2.0 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-1702

LOW

3.3

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-400Resource Exhaustion

How to fix

Remediation Available

containers-imageNVD

Affected:< 5.2.0Fixed in:5.2.0CVE-2020-1702derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityLow

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Exploit Intelligence

0.69%probability of exploitation in 30 days

48thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 48% of all known CVEs.

References

Issue Tracking1

bugzilla.redhat.com

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CVE-2023-44487	High	7.5	100%	KEV	Fix
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CVE-2011-3192	High	7.8	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-11478	Medium	5.3	95%	-	Fix
CVE-2024-25617	Medium	5.3	89%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-1000115	High	7.5	89%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.