CVE-2020-8562
LOWDescription
As mitigations to a report from 2019 and CVE-2020-8555, Kubernetes attempts to prevent proxied connections from accessing link-local or localhost networks when making user-driven connections to Services, Pods, Nodes, or StorageClass service providers. As part of this mitigation Kubernetes does a DNS name resolution check and validates that response IPs are not in the link-local (169.254.0.0/16) or localhost (127.0.0.0/8) range. Kubernetes then performs a second DNS resolution without validation for the actual connection. If a non-standard DNS server returns different non-cached responses, a user may be able to bypass the proxy IP restriction and access private networks on the control plane.
How to fix
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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
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 62% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
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| CVE-2024-50379 | Critical | 9.8 | 44% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-38146 | High | 8.8 | 39% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2024-0132 | Critical | 9.0 | 38% | - | Fix |
Common questions
How do I fix CVE-2020-8562?
Upgrade kubernetes on debian 11 to 1.20.5+really1.20.2-1 or later.
Is CVE-2020-8562 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2020-8562 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 1.1% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 62% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2020-8562?
CVE-2020-8562 has a CVSS v3 base score of 2.2, rated low. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2020-8562 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for kubernetes (Debian). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
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